Incident date: 2020-01-27
NAICS industry code: 562219

An employee was scooping debris with a shovel and pitchfork from a pit for a railcar and putting it into the grapple of an excavator when the employee's leg was pinned between the excavator bucket and a section of train track. The employee received a compound fracture of the left ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate