Incident date: 2015-06-03
NAICS industry code: 237110

On or about 3 June 2015, at approximately 1825 hours, an AR Daniel Construction employee was hospitalized due to an injury acquired at the jobsite. The employee was working in a trench under the railroad tracks located at Grand and 3rd street in Amarillo, Texas, when he was struck in the face by a piece of angle iron that was being used to hoist the pipeline that he was working near. The angle iron was inside the pipe, and a line was tied to the angle iron to hoist the pipe up enough for the employee to remove wood planking from underneath it. The angle iron became dislodged and struck him, causing multiple facial fractures and lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Angle irons
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple face locations
severity: moderate