Incident date: 2025-04-29
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee loaded 18x42 and 24x42 steel pipe that was banded together onto the back of a flatbed trailer. The employee was securing the pipes with a strap over the top of them. When the strap tightened, the band broke and the pipe rolled off onto the employee. The employee sustained fractures to the left arm, hand and leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate