Incident date: 2020-09-28
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was operating a backhoe carrying a bucket full of dirt. He approached a wall and prepared to dump the dirt against it; as he was raising the bucket, the backhoe's front tire fell into a soft spot and the backhoe tipped over. The employee suffered a broken left femur.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate