Incident date: 2017-10-05
NAICS industry code: 423140

An employee was working near a crushing machine. A front-end loader was picking up a vehicle to be crushed when the vehicle fell off the forks. The employee was walking nearby and was struck by the falling vehicle, suffering a dislocated hip, lacerations, and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Vehicle, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and dislocations
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate