Incident date: 2016-03-29
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was torch cutting anchor bolts from the anchor plate of a stand-alone jib crane. As the employee cut the last of the anchor bolts, the approximately 10-foot-high round column with a 10-foot-long jib fell over onto a second employee standing nearby. The second employee was hospitalized with a fractured lower leg and lacerations to the back, neck, forehead, and leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate