Incident date: 2019-05-22
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was operating a roller to compact dirt along the edge of an embankment in a construction zone. As the machine was backing up, the left rear tire ran off the edge of the embankment and the machine rolled down the embankment four to five feet and came to rest on its side. The employee was hospitalized for a rib fracture and a fractured pelvis.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway
code_source: title: Rollers, compactors-construction
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate