Incident date: 2021-09-21
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was using a construction vehicle to push a scraper in front of him to align it. He engaged his push block, and it went over the push bumper. When the scraper came off, the force thrashed him around inside his cab. The control arm/joystick punctured his abdomen.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate