Incident date: 2024-05-28
NAICS industry code: 237130

On May 28, 2024, the injured employee climbed on a trailer to perform a repair on a horizontal directional drill. A second employee was offloading the drill and drove the drill so the ramp could be deployed. The injured employee's lower right leg became caught between the tracks of the drill and the trailer, resulting in fractures to the ankle and tibia.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area  unspecified
code_source: title: Tunneling machines
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate