Incident date: 2019-01-29
NAICS industry code: 333415

An employee was manually maneuvering a steel coil weighing 1,320 lbs. from the storage area to the forks of his forklift when the steel coil fell onto him. The employee was hospitalized for bruises and lacerations and leg fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate