Incident date: 2017-06-01
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was standing next to a banded pile of sheet metal that was sitting on the forks of a parked forklift. The shipping bands broke, allowing the sheet metal to slip off the forks and strike the employee's legs, breaking both ankles.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Sheet metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate