Incident date: 2016-09-27
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was pulling metal pipes from a bundle of six. He was breaking the metal bands that were holding the bundle together to retrieve two of the six. As he was cutting the final band, two of the metal pipes fell from the bundle and struck his right leg, breaking it.

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: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate