Incident date: 2022-05-09
NAICS industry code: 237310

The injured employee was walking on the sidewalk to another portion of the job site. Other employees were taking plastic pipe off a reel; a pipe snapped loose and struck the injured employee in the face resulting in facial fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Plastic, PVC, or rubber pipes and tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Face, unspecified
severity: moderate