Incident date: 2025-03-12
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was standing in a road between two trucks, one of which was towing the other out of mud using an elasticized tow rope. The bumper on one of the trucks failed, and the looped tow rope slipped off it. The rope struck the employee in the legs, breaking the employee's left lower leg. The employee also suffered a scalp laceration and contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate