Incident date: 2019-09-23
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was removing an excavator bucket pin with a crowbar. The crowbar slipped and struck the employee, who fell and suffered a cut on the right side of his face, a broken nose, a possible broken right upper cheek, sore neck muscles, and a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Crowbars
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate