Incident date: 2021-12-28
NAICS industry code: 238220

Employees were removing unions from pipe in a boiler room. One employee was holding a ladder for another employee. One of the unions had loosened through many cycles of heating and cooling, though the employees had not touched it yet; it failed to hold the weight of an 18-inch length of 2-inch pipe, which fell onto the first employee's head. The employee suffered a severe head laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Scalp
severity: moderate