Incident date: 2023-04-03
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was preparing to cut pipes with a portable band saw. He undid the tie wire and leaned one end of a 20-foot long pipe on a removable rail. As he went to move the pipe, a different rail was knocked over. The rail fell onto the employee and struck his left leg, resulting in a left tibia/fibula fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate