Incident date: 2018-09-27
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was walking behind an excavator operating in reverse. The employee's leg/foot was run over and crushed by the excavator's steel track. The lower leg was amputated at the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high