Incident date: 2015-08-20
NAICS industry code: 236220

An excavator was dislodged from a flatbed trailer after hitting an overpass on Northbound I-15. An employee attempted to reload the excavator onto the trailer.  The excavator encountered fluid on the flatbed and slipped off the trailer. The employee was injured, sustaining a hairline fracture to the neck vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate