Incident date: 2018-12-06
NAICS industry code: 337215

An employee was welding a rack together. The welding lead was draped over another rack which he had just finished welding together and had placed onto its side. As the employee was welding, he pulled on his lead and the rack it was draped over tipped and fell onto his lower left leg causing a fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate