Incident date: 2017-01-20
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was loading a 700- to 800-pound steel billet into a furnace when the billet became misaligned on the loading platform. As he attempted to straighten the billet with a pry bar, it rolled off the loading platform and onto his left foot, breaking bones and crushing toes.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate