Incident date: 2025-08-28
NAICS industry code: 332618

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision  vehicle overturn
code_source: title: Rollers, compactors construction
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the chest
severity: moderate