Incident date: 2025-08-27
NAICS industry code: 561990

An employee was walking and taking post-locate photos. He stepped on a ceramic drainage tile and his foot/leg punched through the tile. His leg was lacerated by the broken tile. The employee was hospitalized with internal bleeding due to a punctured femoral artery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Existing opening, hole in constructed surface
code_nature: title: Open wounds involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate