Incident date: 2021-11-05
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was using a hydroseeding machine, attached to a bulldozer, to plant grass on a slope at a landfill. The hitch connecting the hydroseeding machine to the bulldozer broke, and the hydroseeding machine rolled down the slope with the employee on it. The employee suffered broken and bruised ribs, a broken shoulder, and a cut on the ear.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bulldozers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate