Incident date: 2023-08-29
NAICS industry code: 924120

An employee was performing an initial attack on a small fire incident. During the suppression effort, the top of a fire-weakened snag fell out of a tree and struck him in the left shoulder. The employee suffered torn/stretched ligaments between the shoulder and arm, a hairline fracture in his shoulder, and a palm-sized burn on his back-left shoulder blade and the back side of his upper left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Limbs, branches-unattached
code_nature: title: Fractures and burns
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate