Incident date: 2020-08-06
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was placing brush into a disc chipper while trimming trees. The employee tripped and fell backward into the brush and was pulled into the disc chipper. The employee was hospitalized for severe lacerations and cuts to the left shoulder.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to tripping, unspecified
code_source: title: Ground, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
severity: moderate