Incident date: 2019-09-03
NAICS industry code: 334516

An employee was picking up a 10-inch, 230-pound piece of C-channel, using a 7.5-ton overhead bridge crane. The C-channel slipped off the clamping device and fell approximately 7 feet onto the employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to the right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate