Incident date: 2022-09-28
NAICS industry code: 488210

On September 28, 2022, employees were offloading steel plates from a barge. While a plate was being lifted, the injured employee walked between the plate being lifted and a pile of plates approximately 2 feet away. The plate being lifted swung toward the employee, and their left leg was crushed between the plate being lifted and the plates behind them, resulting in a broken left leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate