Incident date: 2022-10-03
NAICS industry code: 238210

Two employees were trenching in a fiber cable using a trenching and plowing machine. Employee 1 was cutting banding around the fiber cable; employee 2 was operating the machine and monitoring the cable as it was laid into ground. Employee 1 was crushed under the left track of the trenching machine, resulting in multiple fractures to their right leg and foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Trenchers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate