Incident date: 2024-09-04
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was filling an excavator bucket with water. When the bucket activated to dump the water, the bucket crushed the employee's right leg. The employee sustained a fractured leg that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Excavators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate