Incident date: 2016-04-18
NAICS industry code: 238990

Two employees were manually lifting a power cooling fan (approximately 60 pounds) off a stack of units on a pallet. While lowering a unit on a cart, the injured employee lost grip, or the unit shifted, and the employee suffered a left wrist laceration requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate