Incident date: 2023-05-22
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was bracing an extension ladder while his coworker installed a 10-foot, 40-45-pound pipe. The pipe fell onto the injured employee's head and he sustained a hematoma, C3 and C4 vertebral fractures and a forehead laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate