Incident date: 2015-10-26
NAICS industry code: 336991

An employee was seriously injured and hospitalized when a large die fell from a crane and struck the employee after the lift cable broke. The employee was hospitalized with a C5 fracture, compression trauma to T4, and a bulging L5 disc. The left great toe was also fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple back regions
severity: moderate