Incident date: 2017-12-14
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was troubleshooting why the latch to the door of a mini-excavator would not open. He had climbed up onto the mini-excavator to get a better vantage point when he lost his footing and fell backward onto a skid-steer bucket that was parked next to the mini-excavator, breaking multiple ribs. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Mini excavators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate