Incident date: 2015-11-03
NAICS industry code: 236210

Employees were preparing to set steel trusses approximately 66 feet long.  The trusses were being moved via forklift from a staging area in the south parking lot approximately 270 feet to the north.  The injured employee was trying to stabilize a steel truss attached to a forklift.  When the employee removed the strap, the truss, weighing approximately 4000 lbs., tilted and fell onto his leg.  The lower leg was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high