Incident date: 2025-04-25
NAICS industry code: 238220

Employees were installing a large metal pipe into a pipe rack in the battery plant using a crane. The injured employee was working in a scissor lift approximately 24 feet above the ground. As the pipe was lifted, it struck the injured employee and caused three rib fractures and chest trauma.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Rib(s), oblique area
severity: moderate