Incident date: 2017-02-28
NAICS industry code: 333319

An employee was cutting the strapping on a bundle of steel square tubing. The bundle was approximately waste high and stacked on top of other material cribbed by 4'x 4' lumber. The bundle fell onto the employee when the last retaining band was cut breaking the employee's right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate