Incident date: 2022-07-21
NAICS industry code: 336999

An employee was operating an excavator machine to load a steel joint pipe onto a trailer. A lever was moved that caused the pipe to rotate toward the machine instead of away from it. The employee was trying to prevent the pipe from rolling into the cab when it pinned his right arm against the machine and broke it.

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