Incident date: 2018-08-10
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was using an overhead crane to move pipe when the pipe became caught and knocked over jack stands holding another pipe. The other pipe fell and struck the employee, pinching his left arm and slicing a tendon. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate