Incident date: 2025-02-12
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was picking up insulation debris off the ground by hand when an approximately 10-foot long piece of metal rebar fell and hit him on his back. The employee sustained a fractured lumbar vertebra. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate