Incident date: 2025-05-23
NAICS industry code: 484121

The injured employee was assisting in servicing equipment. They went to retrieve a bucket located beneath the machine and their arm became caught by the ripper arm on the aft end of a track loader. A portion of the employee s arm was crushed below the elbow, resulting in a fracture requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate