Incident date: 2022-01-04
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was on a job site to repair a residential water line. The employee was looking inside a ditch from above when an excavator bucket hit him, causing him to fall backward off a retaining wall and land on his chest and shoulder. The employee suffered injuries to his ribs, lung, and shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate