Incident date: 2019-08-02
NAICS industry code: 561311

Employees were inspecting a joint of pipe on a rack. Another joint of pipe, rolling from the blast line toward the inspection rack, rolled over the stops and struck one of the employees, breaking his leg. He was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate