Incident date: 2018-06-12
NAICS industry code: 562212

A temporary employee was hooking a chain to an excavator bucket when the excavator bucket moved toward the right side of a bulldozer. The employee's right leg was pinned between the excavator bucket and a part of the bulldozer causing a fracture at the knee.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate