Incident date: 2023-11-09
NAICS industry code: 812220

An employee was standing on a burial vault lid approximately 3 to 4 feet below grade hand-shoveling soil off the lid. An excavator was at rest on ground level accepting the shovels of soil. The excavator bucket inadvertently moved, causing the boom to swing. The excavator bucket then pinned the employee's hip to the wall of the grave, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

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: Pelvis
severity: moderate