Incident date: 2022-05-10
NAICS industry code: 238990

On 5/10/2022, at approximately 3:11 p.m., an employee was using an auger to dig a hole for a fence post when the auger jammed and either struck the employee and/or he was thrown, resulting in a  back injury. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Augers, plumbing snakes-powered
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate