Incident date: 2020-08-17
NAICS industry code: 237310

The injured employee was standing in a hole with a pipe in it during road construction. The employee was unloading bags of concrete from an excavator bucket in preparation for pouring the concrete around the pipe in the hole. The excavator bucket was lowered onto the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for a crushing injury to the left foot that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate