Incident date: 2024-03-15
NAICS industry code: 423130

An employee was transferring tires from the second floor when a tire bounced off another tire and it struck the employee in the sternum. The employee could not breathe and had numbness in the hands and feet, lost consciousness, and sustained a spinal cord injury. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
code_source: title: Tires, inner tubes
code_nature: title: Spinal cord injuries, paralysis  unspecified
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate