Incident date: 2019-10-24
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was transporting two sections of 3-inch schedule 50 piping. While the employee was offloading the trailer and moving the pipes from a pallet to cribbing, a pipe slipped and fell onto the employee's right foot; the employee then fell while turning, hitting the ground and suffering a broken fibula and tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate