Incident date: 2017-01-30
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was conducting well maintenance when the flow line (two inch steel pipe) snapped and struck the employee in the head, back and pelvic areas. The employee then fell approximately three feet sustaining a head laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate