Incident date: 2017-09-18
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was hooking up a 70-foot rebar into the ground when a 25-foot piece of rebar fell and hit the back of his hard hat. This resulted in a fracture to his C1 and C2 vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate