Incident date: 2024-05-06
NAICS industry code: 237310

On May 6, 2024, an employee was installing water pipelines and cleaning the area when they were struck in the right leg by the front loader bucket of a backhoe. They sustained a fractured lower leg and were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate