Incident date: 2021-07-10
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee was directing the track loader as it backed up. A half-inch double-braided polyester rope that being used to remove tree trunks broke and struck the employee resulting in a traumatic head injury and the loss of their left eye.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple head locations
severity: high