Incident date: 2019-11-22
NAICS industry code: 423820

An employee was training a customer on the use of a skid steer with an attachment. The side window of the skid steer was frozen shut and the employee was positioned between the skid steer and the front attachment. While the customer was operating the skid steer, it lurched, and the employee fell onto the blades of the attachment sustaining broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
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