Incident date: 2019-02-08
NAICS industry code: 221119

An employee was preparing to hook a chain to a broken, wooden light pole laying on the ground.  A backyard machine tipped over and the boom attachment fell onto the employee. The employee sustained a lacerated spleen, a fractured back, a crushed diaphragm, multiple broken ribs and internal bleeding.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate