Incident date: 2016-12-19
NAICS industry code: 561320

An employee was demolishing old railroad tracks and moving rails from the track. He was attempting to hook the rail dog machine up on to the old rails that were lying on top of some old cross ties when the rail slid off the top of the cross ties and fell on and fractured his right foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate