Incident date: 2021-06-17
NAICS industry code: 238220

Two employees were moving a pallet of sheet metal from ground level to the ninth floor using a buck hoist. As they arrived on the ninth floor, the sheet metal bowed in the middle and fell over, pinning the employee's legs and resulting in a lower leg fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Sheet metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate