Incident date: 2021-09-13
NAICS industry code: 336510

An employee was using a de-tensioner to loosen a bolt that was installed in a locomotive engine casing. The reaction arm slipped off the main bolt and caught the employee's hand against the engine block. The employee sustained fractured bones in the hand that required hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Turning handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate