Incident date: 2019-05-23
NAICS industry code: 333319

An employee was working near a conveyor that carried totes of tank bottoms. Another employee stopped the upstream. The employee placed a tank bottom on the stopped conveyor and it fell off.  The employee tried to catch it, and the tank bottom lacerated the employee's right inner forearm.  The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Parts and materials, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate