Incident date: 2024-05-21
NAICS industry code: 238910

A crew was clearing a new residential lot using a skid steer. The skid steer pushed over a tree and it struck the injured employee, who was cutting tree limbs with a chainsaw, in the head. The employee was hospitalized for blunt force trauma to the head.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Intracranial injuries  unspecified
code_body: title: Brain
severity: moderate