Fractures

Name: Fractures at R&S STEEL
Start: 9/27/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016099125 · 9/27/2016 · R&S STEEL

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Leg(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Metal pipes, tubing
Secondary source: Bundles, bales

Employer

Name: R&S STEEL
Location: 3811 JOLIET, DENVER, COLORADO, 80239
NAICS: 423510
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was pulling metal pipes from a bundle of six. He was breaking the metal bands that were holding the bundle together to retrieve two of the six. As he was cutting the final band, two of the metal pipes fell from the bundle and struck his right leg, breaking it.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown