Incident date: 2018-05-22
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was down in a culvert directing an excavator operator who was moving a 24-inch cast iron pipe. The rigging slipped from the excavator and the pipe struck the employee's left leg, possibly fracturing it. He was hospitalized.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate