Incident date: 2015-08-09
NAICS industry code: 237990

Employees were moving pieces of rail into position with a backhoe to repair a section of damaged railroad. The injured employee was standing too close to another piece of railing when the backhoe operator set down another piece. His leg was pinched between the two pieces breaking it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate