Incident date: 2022-02-15
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was helping to move a 1,600-pound piece of steel from the ground to a barge. The steel rotated and hit the employee in the lower right leg, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate