Incident date: 2023-04-20
NAICS industry code: 237310

Two employees were cleaning out a road widener. The injured employee  was standing in front of the road widener using a hose to clean out concrete from the equipment. The seat in the cab turned and bumped a lever, causing the road widener to move forward. It knocked the injured employee to the ground and then rolled over him. The employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Graders, scrapers-construction
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate