Incident date: 2018-04-24
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was tensioning a come-a-long that was attached to a brace plate. The injured employee noticed the come-a-long needed adjustments and stopped work. As the injured employee straddled the come-along to make adjustments, the come-a-long broke free and hit/fractured his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate