Incident date: 2024-05-28
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was operating an excavator to free a grinding machine that had become mired in mud. As the excavator exerted force, the pin shackle being utilized to connect the excavator to the grinding machine with a tow strap failed and snapped back, striking the employee in the excavator in the upper left chest. The employee sustained a puncture wound to his upper left shoulder, rendering him unconscious. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate