Incident date: 2015-04-03
NAICS industry code: 484122

An employee injured his leg while delivering some pipe to the Rio Blanco laydown yard off of County Road 5 in Mesa County, Colorado. The employee was helping the driver remove the pipe from a flat bed. When he removed the pipe bindings, one of the pipes fell off and struck his leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate