Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was operating an excavator to excavate a pipeline. While scooping the bucket toward the machine, it hit a rock, and a tooth broke off and went through the windshield of the excavator. The employee sustained a broken right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by discharged object or substance
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate