Incident date: 2020-12-22
NAICS industry code: 238910

A crew had just finished backfilling an excavation on a construction site and were putting lime on the soil. An employee slipped and tripped in mud and could not get out of the way of an excavator as it backed up. He suffered a broken left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate