Incident date: 2024-09-30
NAICS industry code: 332611

An employee was working at a quench conveyor belt, pulling steel blades off the belt and placing them on the low heat belt. One of the blades fell off the quench belt onto the floor. The employee bent over to pick the blade up off the floor when another blade fell off the quench belt and struck them on the top of their head. The employee was hospitalized with a brain bleed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal building materials  unspecified form
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate