Incident date: 2015-03-30
NAICS industry code: 331111

On March 30, 2015, at approximately 7:30 a.m., employees were using an overhead crane to move a sub-product (billet) from a lower level to a higher level. When the billet was situated on the higher level, the chain loosened; it toppled over and fell the down the stairs, striking the employee who was coming up to unhook it. The employee was hospitalized with a scalp laceration and spine fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate