Incident date: 2019-09-03
NAICS industry code: 423510

A truck driver was delivering 30-inch PVC pipe. While the pipe was being unloaded from the rear of the truck and the driver was standing nearby, a pipe came out of the cradle in the front of the truck and fell off the truck. It hit the driver's left leg resulting in surgical amputation. The driver was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Plastic, PVC, or rubber pipes and tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high