Incident date: 2020-10-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was approaching an excavator and was caught between the swinging tail of the excavator and a tree. The employee's arm was crushed and had to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: high