Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 236220

Employees were installing a steel bollard fence using steel pipe rails. They were working to change the angle of a pipe. A forklift was lifting from the low end and the injured employee was using a sledgehammer on the high end. When the pipe released, it made one of the bollards release and strike the injured employee's head. The employee sustained a fractured skull and a laceration to the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other propelled object or substance  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Structural barriers  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate