Incident date: 2020-05-22
NAICS industry code: 238220

After disconnecting a clevis from an excavation bucket, an employee bent down to pick up a stack when the excavator operator turned the excavator. The bucket then hit the employee in the head, causing a neck fracture.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate