Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170605653 - Employee seriously injured by falling steel pipe

Accident Summary Nr: 170605653 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 06/16/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119968774	06/17/1993	1799	0	Encoat

Abstract: At approximately 1:00 p.m. on June 16, 1993, Employee #1, working as a pipe handler, was helping to stack sections of steel pipe when the forklift drove into a depression in the pipe storage yard surface. The unsecured sections of pipe fell off the forklift tines and struck Employee #1 in the left leg. He was hospitalized and his left foot and ankle were amputated. The pipe weighed 1 ton and was 40 feet long, 10 3/4 O.D. The unsecured load is a serious violation, T8CCR3650(N).

Keywords: AMPUTATED, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, PIPE, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, ANKLE, FOOT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119968774			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Occupation not reported

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