OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #942938
STRUCK AGAINST,ABRASION,STRUCK BY,COTTON,CONTUSION
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY BALE OF COTTON
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing on a warehouse floor between two bales of cotton when h e attempted to rock a bale of cotton in an effort to move it. The bale struck an other bale of cotton behind it causing the bale of cotton to rock back toward Em ployee #1 striking him along the left side of his rib cage. Employee #1 was hosp italized.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 7
- Occupation code
- 859
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.