Incident date: 2024-09-27
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was operating/pushing a self-propelled, walk-behind aerator up a hill when the aerator started to slip and drift toward a deck post. The employee was was caught between the aerator and the deck post and sustained a puncture to the right leg below the knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Plowing and tilling machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate