Incident date: 2021-04-28
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was walking toward the back of a truck to grab a pair of gloves. Scrap iron was being unloaded from a trailer attached to the truck. A piece of angle iron fell from the trailer and struck the employee on the forehead, causing internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Angle irons
code_nature: title: Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate