Incident date: 2018-07-05
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was changing a cylinder on the steering column of a motor grader while standing on the raised blade. He hit the lever rod that controls the blade with his hands or arm, causing the blade to rotate and pinch his left leg between the grader and the step. His left leg broke.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Graders, scrapers-construction
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate