Incident date: 2016-11-18
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was helping a three-man crew with a backhoe to lift a walk-behind saw approximately 6 inches and move it forward approximately 3 feet. The employee attached rigging from the walk-behind saw to the backhoe and stood to the side of the forks approximately 4 feet away. As the backhoe operator lifted the saw, the backhoe forks disengaged and struck the employee's hard hat. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, unspecified
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate