Incident date: 2023-06-14
NAICS industry code: 238120

Employees were setting up steel cables to be tested. As they were walking across the facility adjacent to a steel cable that was being tested, the cable snapped. The injured employee began running, then tripped and struck his head on a steel bar. The employee was rendered unconscious and sustained an ear bone fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping, unspecified
code_source: title: Floor, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ear(s)
severity: moderate