Incident date: 2015-05-08
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was trying to separate a piece of angle iron on the pipe rack with his hands. He separated one side of the angle iron from the other two pieces. He was walking next to the pipe rack to get to the other side when the pipe rack collapsed and landed on him, breaking his leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
code_source: title: Racks-garment and other
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate