Incident date: 2019-11-06
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was in the bottom of a trench directing the excavator operator by giving him hand signals when the employee's arm was pinned between the excavator bucket and the trench box. The employee suffered possible soft tissue/nerve damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate