Incident date: 2016-08-02
NAICS industry code: 326122

An employee was supervising the loading of a coil onto a truck from the designated safe zone when the 500-foot, 4-inch coil weighing approximately 1,250 pounds began to slip off the spool that was being lifted by a forklift. The employee tried to push the coil back onto the spool when the coil struck him, knocking him to the ground and cracking his vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate