Incident date: 2021-06-02
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was standing on the deck of a barge after helping set a 60-foot wooden post in a pile driver mounted on an excavator. The post snapped in two and one section swung back and struck the employee in the back, knocking him to the deck of the barge. The employee suffered skin abrasions and fractured bones in his back and ribs.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate