Incident date: 2016-08-30
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was driving a skid steer loader with chunks of blacktop in the bucket. The bucket was raised and the employee dumped the load into the dump truck. A large piece of blacktop was hanging over the edge of the dump truck and a piece broke off and fell, striking the employee's right knee and fracturing the knee cap.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Knee(s)
severity: moderate