Incident date: 2019-07-19
NAICS industry code: 238190

An employee was running a trencher in a yard. The trencher hit a 10-foot rod that had been covered with dirt, and the rod flipped into the employee's back thigh and caused a puncture wound above the knee. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trenchers
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate