Incident date: 2024-03-27
NAICS industry code: 332311

An employee was unloading bundled rods for building from a telehandler while standing on five-foot-high pipes and reaching for the rods. The rods slipped off the forks of the telehandler and a bundle fell on their lower legs, fracturing both of them.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate