Incident date: 2018-12-10
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was cutting a rack of horizontal piping with a with a reciprocating saw while standing on the floor. He freed both ends of the pipe and the pipe fell onto his right leg breaking the lower leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate