Incident date: 2025-02-10
NAICS industry code: 423840

A delivery driver was helping a customer unload a strut. The banding around the strut broke loose and lacerated the employee's lower left leg. The employee was hospitalized and required stitches and surgery to repair the patellar tendon.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Strapping, bands
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate