Incident date: 2019-10-10
NAICS industry code: 517212

An employee was helping to unload near-empty wire-duct spools (2 feet tall, 200-300 pounds) off a trailer bed that was about 2 feet off the ground. The last spool rolled over from the trailer and one side fell on the employee, who suffered a fractured vertebra and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate