Incident date: 2023-10-09
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was tying piano wire to measure and gauge the thickness of the wall pour/shoring needed. A rock weighing approximately 30 pounds was moved by a bulldozer. The rock struck the employee while they were inside the excavation. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the head/skull.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Rocks, crushed stone
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Head, unspecified
severity: moderate