Incident date: 2024-05-21
NAICS industry code: 221122

An employee was standing on the step on the passenger's rear side of a bucket truck returning the empty basket and boom to its cradle position. As the boom lowered the employee was caught between the control station and the empty bucket. They sustained an upper extremity fracture, an injury to lower neck vertebrae, and a blood clot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Boom truck, cherry picker
code_nature: title: Other multiple traumatic injuries  n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple body parts  unspecified
severity: moderate