Incident date: 2018-07-12
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee unloaded two pipe racks off a flatbed trailer, set them aside, and climbed on the trailer to remove the chains from the other racks. The employee then climbed off the trailer and began walking back toward the cab on the driver's side when a pipe rack rolled off the trailer and caught the employee's left thigh, fracturing the left femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate