Incident date: 2020-04-24
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was applying coating to a weld at a pipe joint when an adjacent pipe shifted, pinning the employee against a second pipe. The employee sustained fractures to his rib cage and tailbone along with bruising to the right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate