Incident date: 2022-10-07
NAICS industry code: 115113

A crew was tarping haystacks using a telehandler. An employee got onto the forks of the telehandler to be lifted up to the top of the haystack with the tarps. The employee attempted to hook the loops on the tarp to the hooks on the telehandler. The telehandler moved and caught the employee's arm, breaking and lacerating it. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate