Incident date: 2023-04-25
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was working with an excavator operator to shovel outside of a manhole so that a barrel could be removed. The bucket fell off the excavator into the hole and landed on the injured employee's right leg, resulting in multiple compound fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate