Incident date: 2022-05-13
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was standing at the edge of a trench. A backhoe's bucket and arm swung toward the trench and pushed the employee in. The employee suffered six broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate