Incident date: 2018-09-28
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee climbed into a man lift on the ground. He was about to ascend when a piece of hardened asphalt dislodged from the top of a silo, fell toward the ground, and struck his right hand. He suffered fractures and lacerations to the hand and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Paving asphalt, asphaltic cement
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate