Incident date: 2018-12-21
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was welding a 25-foot, 1,700-pound steel I-beam when a forklift knocked it off its supports. It fell onto the employee, breaking his right collarbone and six ribs on his right side and causing a hematoma on his left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate