Incident date: 2015-08-04
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was moving a beam with a crane. He unhooked the beam and was lifting the hook when the hook caught the beam. The beam fell, striking him and breaking his right femur. He sustained a compound fracture to the right femur bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate