Incident date: 2019-03-12
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was lifting a piece of steel weighing approximately 100 lbs. onto the work bench utilizing a magnetic lifting device attached to a jib crane. When the employee began to move the piece of steel, it fell from the magnet and struck the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for foot 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: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate