Incident date: 2015-06-17
NAICS industry code: 423820

An employee was crushed between two tractors. Employees were using jumper cables to boost a dead battery on a John Deere agriculture tractor when the tractor jumped backwards and the employee became pinned between the weights on the front of the back tractor and the back wheel of the front tractor. The injured employee had internal bleeding, sustained a collapsed lung and a tear in his small intestines.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Farm tractor
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate