Incident date: 2019-11-05
NAICS industry code: 238220

While working under or around a scaffold, an employee was struck in the chest by a 3-foot long, 65-pound S-spool that fell while it was being buffered with a wire wheel by an employee up on the 10-foot scaffold deck. The employee was hospitalized with chest bruising.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate