Incident date: 2017-05-27
NAICS industry code: 321113

An employee was sorting wooden boards on a finish line when a board weighing approximately 30 pounds fell on the employee's head. The employee suffered partial paralysis of the hands and feet and was hospitalized. The employee was wearing a hard hat at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Dimensional lumber: 2x4, 2x3, etc.
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate