Incident date: 2019-07-09
NAICS industry code: 331513

An employee was in-cutting a steel slab with a portable burning machine. The machine did not cut all the way through the slab. The employee bent down to turn off the machine and the end of the slab broke loose, causing the machine to come down and hit the employee in the back of the head. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from a laceration and bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Other metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Scalp
severity: moderate