Incident date: 2021-08-04
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was operating a dozer in an open field. The dozer's blade got caught at a drainage ditch and the dozer stopped suddenly. The employee was thrown from the seat to the floor of the cab and suffered a spinal injury. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
code_source: title: Bulldozers
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate