Incident date: 2018-10-04
NAICS industry code: 424910

At 4:45 p.m. on October 4, 2018, an employee was using a self-propelled fertilizer spreader to spread dry fertilizer on a customer's farm. He struck a washout in the field, and the spreader's air-ride seat bottomed out. He suffered a compression fracture of his lumbar spine and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
code_source: title: Spreading machinery-agricultural
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate