Incident date: 2017-07-20
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was sitting in the operator seat of a log loader truck preparing to assist in a tree felling operation when a tree limb broke and fell on him, knocking him to the ground. He fractured four vertebrae, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Log loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate