Incident date: 2018-05-21
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was placing skids for pipes that needed to be unloaded when a mechanical lifting device failed, allowing a steel pipe to hit the employee's right leg. The employee sustained a broken right femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate