Incident date: 2023-03-01
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was helping to lower a rebar frame into a 5-foot-deep trench. The employee reached for a chain that had come loose from the rebar and the excavator bucket closed on the employee's left arm, crushing it. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate