Incident date: 2016-07-26
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was setting a tong on a pipe to break the pipe off from the cutter. A backhoe operator thought he was getting a signal from the flagger to lower the bucket. As the backhoe operator lowered the bucket, it struck the right hand of the employee that was positioned on top of the tong. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured and lacerated right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate