Incident date: 2023-10-05
NAICS industry code: 238990

A crew was setting up to clean out a squeegee machine. The controls of the machine were struck by a spray wand, shifting the machine from park to reverse. When the machine was started, it lunged backward and caught an employee s leg against a water truck. The employee's leg was fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian vehicular incident, unspecified
code_source: title: Road grading and surfacing machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate