Incident date: 2022-05-06
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was changing a pinion gear in the gearhead that drives a vertical turning lathe. The gearhead fell and the employee stepped out of its path and fell off the round worktable onto the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left shoulder, a fractured left forearm, and contusions on the left elbow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Tables, worktables
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
severity: moderate