Incident date: 2024-01-08
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee (part of a three-person crew clearing trees and brush) was operating a compact utility loader. A limb from a tree that was being felled struck the employee, who suffered broken ribs and a lung puncture and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Trees, logs, limbs  unspecified
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Multiple internal chest locations
severity: moderate