Incident date: 2021-02-02
NAICS industry code: 325991

An employee was clearing snow using a skid loader. The loader's bucket hit something solid, causing the skid loader to stop abruptly. The employee's chest collided with the safety bar inside the loader, causing the employee to lose consciousness. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate