Incident date: 2022-10-22
NAICS industry code: 424910

On October 22, 2022, an employee was using a floater to apply dry fertilizer. The vehicle hit a small bump, then a ditch. It bounced, and the employee suffered a burst fracture to the L1 vertebra. The employee 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