Incident date: 2015-04-22
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was exiting an excavator.  The employee's foot got caught on the exit ladder on the excavator, causing the employee to fall backwards onto the ground resulting in a broken right hip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate