Incident date: 2016-09-26
NAICS industry code: 333132

An employee was operating a pendant crane to move a bundle of 20 sinker bars onto a stack that was eight levels high. As he was unstrapping the hook from the bundle, a banding from another bundle beneath had become undone, causing the bundle of rods to collapse. He was caught in the fallen bundle of rods, causing multiple fractures to both legs. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck, caught, or crushed in other collapsing structure or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate