Incident date: 2017-02-23
NAICS industry code: 221115

An employee was standing near a flat bed trailer while conductor reels were loaded onto the flat bed. A reel came off the spreader beam, dropped and rolled onto the employee's legs. The reel was removed from his legs with a fork lift. The employee suffered lacerations and a fractured leg and ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate