Incident date: 2017-07-09
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was sitting on a casing pipe. The road bore operator could not see the employee and then activated the machine and moved it forward. The right leg of the employee sitting on the pipe became caught/pinched between the track and pipe. He suffered a broken tibia and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate