Incident date: 2025-04-02
NAICS industry code: 423390

An employee was preparing steel beams for loading onto a truck and walked on top of a stack of beams that was approximately 3 to 4 feet high. When he stepped down off the beams, the beams fell onto him. He was hospitalized with a crush injury to his lower back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
code_body: title: Back  lumbar region
severity: moderate