Incident date: 2021-02-01
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was adjusting the banding and straps of a steel tubing and fabricator bundle weighing approximately 1,000 pounds that had been loaded onto a truck. The steel bundle fell off the truck and onto the employee, resulting in a broken right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate