Incident date: 2022-11-12
NAICS industry code: 327120

An employee was cleaning up debris from the ground floor at a work site. A 3-foot steel bar was kicked off a scaffold 12 feet above and fell onto the employee. They were hospitalized for a laceration and fracture of the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate