Incident date: 2022-02-07
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was setting down a 952-pound, 20-foot steel beam on a shot blast conveyor using a 5-ton overhead crane. After the employee released the rigging from the steel beam, they turned and began relocating the overhead crane via pendant control. The rigging caught the top flange of the beam, tipping the beam onto the employee and resulting in fractures to the right fibula and tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate