Incident date: 2025-07-28
NAICS industry code: 423510

A bundle of steel tubing, weighing about 2,800 pounds, had slid off the forks of a forklift and fallen to the ground. An employee was helping the forklift operator pick up the tubing using straps that were part of the steel pieces. The bundle fell onto his left foot, crushing it and causing partial amputations to toes. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high