Incident date: 2024-09-05
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee temporarily positioned two telehandler tires against a concrete K-rail to replace the broken pallet on which the tires were originally situated. Shortly thereafter, the employee was walking by and the tires fell from their vertical position to the ground and struck the employee's right leg above his ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Tires, inner tubes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate