Incident date: 2021-08-09
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was operating an excavator when it fell over the edge of a seepage bed excavation, landing 12 feet below. The employee suffered fractures to the left leg, as well as a forehead injury (from the excavator's cracked windshield) that required stitches.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Ran off driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate