Incident date: 2019-03-26
NAICS industry code: 922160

A bundle of piping was being moved with a crane, with an employee holding onto the tagline to guide the bundle through an opening. A pipe was dislodged from the bundle and struck the employee in the forehead, knocking the employee unconscious and causing an open laceration and a small skull fracture above the eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Skull fracture and intracranial injury
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate