Incident date: 2025-04-01
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was changing a manual steel thumb on an excavator. When the thumb was disconnected, he lost his balance and fell from the excavator bucket he had been standing on. The thumb then pinned his left foot and knee, causing injuries to the foot and the knee that resulted in swelling and ligament damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine front attachments
code_nature: title: Sprains, strains, tears  unspecified
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and knee(s)
severity: moderate