Incident date: 2024-02-19
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was operating a compact track loader to load an auger. He was backing down the sloped ramp of the flatbed trailer when the compact loader flipped and the auger attachment struck him in the right side of his head. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the right side of the face; and injury to an eye, an ear, and their back.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  vehicle overturn
code_source: title: Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ears and facial region  unspecified
severity: moderate