Incident date: 2020-04-16
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was installing a pipeline in a trench. The employee coiled tubing on a spool and was attempting to tie in two pipe ends when the pipe slipped and flexed, striking and fracturing the employee's fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate