Incident date: 2015-07-30
NAICS industry code: 444130

An employee had used 2x4 to chock a trencher wheel. While working on the trencher, the wheel slid and caused the trencher to fall on the employee's arm, breaking the right humerus and requiring surgery and overnight hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trenchers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Upper arm(s)
severity: moderate