Incident date: 2021-09-11
NAICS industry code: 561311

An employee was struck by the bucket and boom of an excavator while it was piledriving poles into the ground. The employee sustained a crushing injury to the left leg and had also been struck in the head by the excavator's boom.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate