Incident date: 2016-03-21
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was moving a pipe to another pipe to be welded. As the employee was maneuvering out of the way of the moving pipe, he tripped on another pipe that was laying on the ground. He fell onto that pipe and broke his left wrist, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
code_source: title: Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate