Incident date: 2021-07-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

Employees were pouring a culvert using a trackhoe. The injured employee was dumping a concrete bucket when the hydraulic line on the trackhoe failed causing the stick portion of the boom to release. The bucket struck the injured employee and he fell into a rocky bank and struck his head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate