Incident date: 2017-11-17
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was operating a concrete drill rig when the fast-acting auger valve was activated, causing the rig to push downward into the earth and tip over. The employee jumped from the tipping drill rig and suffered cracked vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Jump from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate