Incident date: 2017-09-12
NAICS industry code: 423830

Employees were unloading a barge into a charge truck on the scrap dock. The crane operator was stepping out of the cab to relay a message to a dockhand. When he returned to the cab of the crane his shirt caught on one of the joysticks and pulled the grapple toward the machine. The grapple struck the charge truck driver resulting in a head laceration and contusion resulting in hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts and abrasions or bruises
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate