Incident date: 2016-01-26
NAICS industry code: 237120

While a backhoe was pulling dirt into a hole, it caught the wire on a nearby barbed wired fence. The backhoe pulled the wire out, causing it to strike and break the leg of a nearby employee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barbed-wire fences
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate