Incident date: 2022-11-29
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was offloading bundles of steel from a truck when the banding on the bundles near the bottom of the stack broke open. The stack shifted toward the employee and the bundle at the top of the stack fell, crushing their right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate