Incident date: 2021-07-31
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was lying on a concrete slab immediately next to an unloader. The unloader had been raised on a hydraulic jack so the employee could make a shim adjustment to it. When the employee lowered the unloader after making the adjustment, it fell and struck the employee, who suffered a 10-inch horizontal laceration to the chest; the amputation of three fingers on the left hand; a cut to the left side of the head; cuts on the upper right arm; and bruises to the back, left hip, and right shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high