Incident date: 2017-12-30
NAICS industry code: 562212

An employee was operating an excavator to load off-road trucks with soil. He slipped while dismounting the excavator, causing him to lose grip of the grab bar and fall to the ground. He attempted to break his fall and fractured his right wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Wrist(s)
severity: moderate