Incident date: 2022-03-12
NAICS industry code: 113310

At 10:15 a.m. on March 12, 2022, an employee was using a truck-mounted log loader to load logs on a truck. The truck began to slide down an incline toward a pond. When it came to a rest at the pond, the mounts of the knuckle boom broke and the employee was thrown from the machine to the ice on the pond. The employee suffered possibly broken ribs, as well as a cut to the head, and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate