Incident date: 2025-07-15
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee of UPS Industrial Services, LLC, was helping offload 40-foot sections of 8-inch pipe (weighing 3,000 pounds each) from a forklift in the laydown yard. As he reached to remove a piece of dunnage from the forklift tines, a pipe began to roll toward him from the back of the forklift mast toward the front. The pipe then fell from the forklift forks, catching his left and right legs against another pipe on the ground. He suffered fractures to both lower legs and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate