Incident date: 2024-10-30
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was part of a crew tasked with removing and replacing inlet grates. A grate was being lifted it into the bucket of a backhoe when the grate slipped out of one crew member's hands and fell onto the injured employee's lower right leg, resulting in fractures to their ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate