Incident date: 2018-08-30
NAICS industry code: 712190

At about 4:00 p.m. on August 30, 2018, an employee was ridding a saddle mule when it spooked and ran up a hillside. He dismounted before being knocked off, landing on rocks and breaking two vertebrae in his lower back. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal being ridden
code_source: title: Horses and other equines
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lumbar region
severity: moderate