Incident date: 2020-11-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was spotting as a mini-excavator installed a telephone pole. The excavator's boom struck the employee on the left side of his face and his left shoulder, knocking him backwards over a utility pole behind him. He suffered a small laceration to the side of the face and an injury to the shoulder, as well as a lower back injury from the fall. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Mini excavators
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Shoulder(s) and back
severity: moderate