Incident date: 2021-10-15
NAICS industry code: 221310

An employee was loading a 20-foot length of 8-inch PVC pipe onto a pipe rack on a truck. The pipe struck him on the right side of the head above the ear resulting in injury. He also sustained a second injury on the left side of his head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Plastic, PVC, or rubber pipes and tubing
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: moderate