Incident date: 2025-07-02
NAICS industry code: 221114

On July 2, 2025, at approximately 8:45 AM, an employee was loading a spool of fence material into a dispensing attachment on a skid steer when the doors of the equipment closed. The employee's jaw/cheeks were caught in the closing doors, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to the jaw and cheek.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
severity: moderate