Incident date: 2023-01-11
NAICS industry code: 423930

Employees were operating a truck-mounted car baler to bale cars at a local wrecking yard. A car slid out of the grapple, falling approximately 8 feet and striking another car. That car then struck the injured employee. The employee sustained crushing injuries and fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate