Incident date: 2015-09-21
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was standing next to an excavator.  The excavator turned and the employee was struck by the excavator's counterweight.  The employee fell over into a sump hole and struck his body against a steel plate.  The employee suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs, punctured lung, and broken left elbow.  The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ground, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate