Incident date: 2021-08-10
NAICS industry code: 336370

An employee was walking across a scrap chute cover to get to the other side of a press. A locking mechanism on the cover failed and the employee fell 16 feet to the level below the press, suffering a head laceration and a possible back injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet
code_source: title: Chutes
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate