Incident date: 2019-12-22
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was lowering a scaffold board using a rope and pulley assembly when the board slipped out of the rope and fell. The board caught a tangle in the rope and caused the hook end of the rope to shoot upward, where it hit the employee in the face and head. The employee suffered a probable fracture or concussion and tissue damage in the right eye area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Drums, pulleys, sheaves
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate