Incident date: 2017-03-24
NAICS industry code: 237110

On March 24, 2017, an employee was spotting a front-end loader that was loading barrier walls onto a low boy trailer when one of the barrier walls (12 feet long, weighing about 5,000 pounds) fell on his ankle and fractured his left leg. He was hospitalized and his leg was amputated below his knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high