Incident date: 2023-01-30
NAICS industry code: 236210

An employee was rigging a steel beam that weighed approximately 3,500 pounds. The beam shifted during a realignment operation using a forklift and pinned the employee's foot between the steel beam and an adjacent wall. The employee's foot was fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate