Incident date: 2024-04-23
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was moving stacks of bundled 12" square structural steel pipe. There were three bundles atop each other. When he was cutting the last banding on the top bundle, a piece of steel fell and hit his legs and feet causing fractures that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate