Incident date: 2023-03-13
NAICS industry code: 221114

On March 13, 2023, at approximately 4:45 PM, an employee was operating a vertical pile installation machine to install a lower guide. When he returned upright, he contacted the machine's head plate and sustained a C6/C7 cervical fracture and lost consciousness temporarily.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Pile drivers, tamping machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate