Incident date: 2015-08-24
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was in a trench box inside of a 30 foot deep trench signaling a backhoe operator who was lowering a pipe into the trench. The employee's left arm was caught between the bucket (6 feet wide and 9 feet deep) and the trench box. The employee suffered contusions and swelling of the employee's left arm was evident. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Bruises, contusions
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate