Incident date: 2020-08-01
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee had just placed some timbers on a pipe stack. As he was moving away, a 16-inch by 10-foot pipe that was being stacked rolled onto the timbers past the intended placement. This caused the timbers to catapult over the pipe. One of the two timbers struck the employee on the right side as it was coming down, knocking him to the ground. He suffered fractures to the right wrist, nose, face, and skull on the right side. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Wood, lumber, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate