Incident date: 2022-02-12
NAICS industry code: 238910

A front-end loader had been flipped over upright, and employees were getting ready to unload its bucket. When pressure on the hydraulic lines was released, the bucket lowered quickly and crushed an employee who had walked beneath it. The employee suffered three broken upper-back vertebrae and a punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
code_source: title: Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate