Incident date: 2023-08-02
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was assisting a co-worker to remove an inner form. The injured employee got on his hands and knees and started to chip away at the concrete. When the pressure was removed, the 1,100-pound concrete product fell out of the form and landed on the employee. He sustained fractures to the spine and shoulder blade as well as a collapsed lung and a spleen injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Structural elements, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate