Incident date: 2020-04-30
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was directing an excavator operator who was backfilling on the downhill side of a retaining wall when the operator disengaged the hydraulic control. The employee was then struck by the excavator bucket or mud, suffering a fractured leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate