Incident date: 2017-02-14
NAICS industry code: 441320

An employee was setting a trailer onto a hitch when he climbed underneath the tongue to try and position it. The tongue slipped off the ball and struck him in the head. He was hospitalized with forehead lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Trailers
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Forehead
severity: moderate