Incident date: 2019-07-05
NAICS industry code: 444110

On July 5, 2019, an employee was working in a flatbed trailer area, consolidating corrugated metal culverts on a pallet at ground level. The employee lifted one end of a culvert and it slipped and cut the employee's left ring and little fingers. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Culverts, nonconfined ditches
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate