Incident date: 2019-12-09
NAICS industry code: 493130

An employee was hooking up a trailer to a pickup while a second employee was using a skid steer to remove snow around the trailer. The skid steer bucket struck the first employee, causing a compound fracture of the lower left leg below the knee and a fracture to the right wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper and lower limb(s)
severity: moderate