Incident date: 2020-02-27
NAICS industry code: 423720

Employees were on-site delivering a bundle of pipes. An employee was unloading the pipes by tying the pipes with a chain that was hooked to the back of a pickup truck. When the pipes came off the flat bed, one of the pipes struck the injured employee, who was standing on the ground near the flat bed, on the head resulting in a laceration.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate