Incident date: 2025-01-07
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was installing sanitary sewer manholes when a nearby excavator bucket detached and rolled into the trench, striking the employee. The employee sustained fractures to both legs from the teeth on the bucket and their right arm from the side of the bucket.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate