Incident date: 2017-09-25
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was installing sprinkler pipe. A 10-inch pipe weighing 1,000 lbs. slipped off the trackhoe as the pipe was being lowered and struck the employee causing a severe leg injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate