Incident date: 2016-08-14
NAICS industry code: 488320

While hooking up cargo (wood pulp) in a vessel, an employee walked into one of the landing gear legs of the spreader bar, knocking his hard hat off and causing his head to go backwards. His neck and right arm became numb and he could not move his right-hand fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner, ship, excluding sail-powered
code_nature: title: Numbness-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate