Incident date: 2019-10-14
NAICS industry code: 213112

While cleaning equipment prior to rig down, an employee was working with a rig contractor to rig down a centrifuge slide with a forklift. The employee was sitting on a beam under the centrifuge and behind the slide when the slide slipped off the forklift, swinging and pinning the employee against the beam of the centrifuge. He sustained a fractured tibia and fibula just below the left knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate