Incident date: 2025-08-25
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was assisting with cutting a vertical steel pile. A 16-foot by 9-inch section of pile dropped to the side and bounced off a previously cut pile and toward the employee. The employee was struck in the torso and leg, causing his knee to dislocate from his femur. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Dislocations
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate