Incident date: 2019-03-09
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was using a 6-foot breaker bar to demolish an old concrete sidewalk when the concrete slipped off the excavator forks, causing the breaker bar to pop up. Concrete hit the employee in the chin and Adam's apple area, lacerating his neck and knocking him unconscious.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Construction debris
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate