Incident date: 2022-01-26
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee was lowering a plating rack into a drip tank from below. The employee was pushing on the rack with his hands when the rack came free and came down on top of his forearm, resulting in a crushed forearm and soft tissue damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate