Incident date: 2022-12-15
NAICS industry code: 237130

An employee was changing bolts on a two-hole splice plate of an erected steel beam. After removing the second bolt, the bull pin dislodged, causing the beam to fall. The employee fell approximately eight feet off the beam and landed on a pipe spool below. The employee sustained fractures to the left clavicle, left wrist, and a laceration above his eyebrow.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate