Incident date: 2025-03-13
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was loading joints of 2 7/8-inch steel oilfield pipe from a pipe rack onto a pipe trailer hooked onto an Ascend Oil Field Services truck. The employee was rolling the pipes by hand. The employee fell while rolling a pipe and a pipe fell off the rails and landed on the employee's left leg, causing a fractured left fibula and a dislocated ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate