Incident date: 2017-09-27
NAICS industry code: 332812

On 9/27/2017, an employee was preparing to lift a 300-pound, 12-foot steel column when the column became hung up. The tie wire used to lift the column then became stressed and broke, causing the column to fall and strike the employee, who suffered broken bones.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Structural metal materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate