Incident date: 2024-10-09
NAICS industry code: 236220

At 9:44 p.m. on October 9, 2024, an employee was helping rig and move a bundle containing about 30 pieces of 48-foot, 6-inch rebar. The employee was caught between the moving rebar bundle and a landed stationary rebar bundle, suffering a liver laceration and a non-displaced fracture of the tenth rib.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate