Incident date: 2018-01-10
NAICS industry code: 238910

At approximately 8:00 a.m., on 1/10/2018, an employee was signaling an excavator operator who could not see the bottom grade of a box trench to dig farther when he fell approximately 8 feet into the excavation, fracturing a bone in his neck and requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall through surface or existing opening 6 to 10 feet
code_source: title: Ground, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate