Incident date: 2016-04-06
NAICS industry code: 331524

An employee was running the casting machine when he noticed that the charge bucketful of ingots had come off of the elevator. When he attempted to pick up the ingots that had fallen onto the floor, the carrier arms (part of the chain lift elevator device) that held the charge bucket in place came down and struck his right hand, breaking it. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Casting machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate