Incident date: 2025-04-30
NAICS industry code: 611310

A student employee was moving a shipment of steel bar stock (approximately 3/4  by 3  by 10-12 ) in the stock room by himself. Shortly thereafter, another employee and two students heard a loud noise. They discovered the employee unconscious underneath a pile of bar stock weighing approximately 916 pounds. The student employee sustained skull fractures, brain swelling, a collapsed lung, and a spinal cord injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collapse, engulfment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
code_nature: title: Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries
code_body: title: Head and trunk
severity: moderate