Incident date: 2022-12-10
NAICS industry code: 331112

An employee was operating a company-owned vehicle on a roadway inside a worksite. As the employee was driving downhill, the vehicle brakes failed and the vehicle struck an embankment at the bottom of the hill. The employee sustained a vertebra fracture in his back and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate