Incident date: 2022-08-10
NAICS industry code: 327991

Employees were pulling quartz slabs weighing approximately 500 pounds each from an A-frame storage area. An employee was holding the slabs vertically when they fell on him resulting in a ruptured spleen, a punctured lung, and multiple fractures. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Stone, marble, granite slabs
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate