Incident date: 2023-03-15
NAICS industry code: 221310

An employee was unloading 6-inch ductile iron pipe from the back of a flat-bed truck. The load shifted, causing the employee to fall off the back of the truck. The pipe then fell on top of the employee. He was hospitalized with broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate