Incident date: 2024-11-20
NAICS industry code: 236118

At 8:15 a.m., an employee was unwinding a spring to an overhead garage door at a jobsite when the door shifted and the spring struck his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized with a broken wrist that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
code_source: title: Springs, coils
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate