Incident date: 2017-11-15
NAICS industry code: 488210

The injured employee was standing on the driver's side of the trailer while another employee (customer's employee) was using a forklift to pick bundles of steel pipe off the passenger side of the trailer. A bundle fell and landed on the injured employee's right leg, breaking six bones in his right heel, foot, and leg. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate