Incident date: 2020-09-24
NAICS industry code: 481111

An employee was making a metal platform. As the employee was moving the metal platform with a half-ton jib hoist to weld the platform, the strap broke and the metal platform struck the employee knocking him to the ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate