Incident date: 2017-04-24
NAICS industry code: 324121

An employee was driving a road grater when the blade struck something in the ground causing the grater to stop suddenly. The employee was jolted resulting in cracked or slipped vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Sudden start or stop, nonroadway
code_source: title: Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
code_nature: title: Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate