Incident date: 2019-06-27
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was unloading a sign trailer and disconnecting a sign from its travel supports. The employee's right arm was caught on the horizontal stiffener (Z-bar). The employee fell off the trailer and suffered a laceration to the right arm from under the arm pit to below the elbow. The brachial artery was severed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Multiple arm locations, unspecified
severity: moderate