Incident date: 2019-09-26
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was backing a mini-excavator out of a bay. The machine rotated and pinned his head between the cab and the bay door frame. He was bleeding from the ears. The employee was hospitalized and needed surgery to relieve pressure on his brain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Mini excavators
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries, unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate