Incident date: 2022-03-15
NAICS industry code: 237310

Employees were setting coping on a wall with an excavator. The excavator pulled on a piece of coping (weighing 800-1000 pounds) and caused it to tip over. It fell onto an employee's lower legs; the employee suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Building materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hip(s)
severity: moderate