Incident date: 2022-08-08
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was undoing the banding on a stack of steel tubing to transfer to the saw deck. The tubes separated and fell on the employee's legs fracturing the left tibial plateau and the lateral malleolus of the right fibula.

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