Incident date: 2023-09-08
NAICS industry code: 332216

On September 8, 2023, an employee was using an overhead hoist to dump a batch of center punches from a heat treating tub into the normalizer. The tub fell out of the dumping cradle and onto the employee's foot. The employee was hospitalized with multiple fractures to the left foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate