Incident date: 2024-08-24
NAICS industry code: 213112

Employees had used an excavator to pull a hydrovac unit that had high-centered. The injured employee then went under the hydrovac to disconnect the tow line. The hydrovac lurched forward and ran over the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized with a degloving injury to skin on their thigh.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Thigh(s)
severity: moderate