Incident date: 2017-11-06
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was removing a 900-pound counterweight rigging to transfer it to a forklift when the counterweight fell to the ground during the transfer and landed on the employee's lower right leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to the lower leg, requiring surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate