Incident date: 2016-06-16
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was checking piece numbers on structural steel beams that were stacked one on top of another when a piece of cribbing broke and collapsed the stack of beams. The employee could not get out of the way fast enough and the collapsing steel fell on his leg, pinning it under the beams. He was hospitalized with a broken/fractured right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in collapsing structure, equipment, or material, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate