Incident date: 2022-11-14
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee was lifting metal tubing with a crane when one of the lifting chains became caught on a wooden block sticking out from under a tube. The load shifted, and a tube fell from a stack of bundled tubing onto the employee resulting in fractures to their jaw, arm, and leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate