Incident date: 2018-11-07
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee had just cut the last metal band from a bundle of steel tubes that had been placed on top of another bundle of steel tubes. Both bundles collapsed toward his right leg, causing blunt trauma and a possible broken tibia.

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: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate