Incident date: 2016-03-03
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was checking on a mini-excavator being worked on by a subcontractor. As he walked around the mini excavator, a hydraulic failure caused the extended boom to drop and strike the employee in the upper back area, cracking vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Mini excavators
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
severity: moderate