Incident date: 2016-02-09
NAICS industry code: 237310

While an employee was laying pipe, a piece of 36" concrete pipe became disconnected from an excavator. The pipe rolled down the slope of the excavation and up against the employee, striking and breaking his lower left leg bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Concrete or clay pipes and conduits
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate