Incident date: 2024-12-21
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was rigging down and preparing to move equipment to the jobsite when a 20-foot length of frac iron (450 lbs.) rolled off the truck bed and struck them in the lower left leg. The employee sustained fractures to their tibia and fibula and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate