Incident date: 2018-04-17
NAICS industry code: 332323

An employee was unloading metal rails from a transport trailer when the rails slid off the trailer supports and struck the employee in the back and lower leg. The employee suffered damaged vertebrae and a lower leg injury, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate