Incident date: 2019-08-02
NAICS industry code: 331210

An overhead crane was being used to stack 4-by-4-by-20-foot steel beams on an existing pile of beams. An employee was walking through the area when a stack of about 20 beams from the pile collapsed and struck the employee's legs, breaking both of them.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
code_source: title: Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate