Incident date: 2017-12-07
NAICS industry code: 238210

Employees were removing a piece of switchgear weighing more than 1,000 pounds when it fell forward, striking and pinning an employee between it and a wall. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured clavicle, fractured scapula, fractured vertebra, and fractured ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate