Incident date: 2017-04-07
NAICS industry code: 423990

An employee was moving a beam with an overhead crane when the beam went off center. The employee then stepped backward and tripped, and the beam fell on his leg, which was injured and required surgery.

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: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate