Incident date: 2025-01-02
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was standing behind a backhoe monitoring the work and waiting to gather broken asphalt. The backhoe's brake system dislodged and the equipment rolled backward about 5 feet and over the employee's right foot, resulting in fractures to his metatarsals. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot (feet)  excluding toes
severity: moderate