OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14304984
UNCONSCIOUSNESS,FRONT END LOADER,SAND,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,UNSTABLE SOIL,BURIED,FALLING OBJECT
Event description
Equipment operator hospitalized when 65 ft sandbank collapse
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a front end loader operator, was undermining a 65 ft high bank of s sustained cuts and bruises, was hospitalized. He should have used proper safety procedures and not let the slope of the bank exceed the angle of repose. and and gravel that had a slope of 80 to 85 percent. He was to finish underminin g the bank and move away from it before the sun heated up the ground and caused the sand and gravel to fall. However, Employee #1 and the owner had misjudged th e timing: the bank came down about two hours before they thought it would. The f alling sand and gravel struck the front end loader, pushing it back about 8 ft a nd almost covering it. Employee #1 was covered up to his neck and was struck wit h the front windows and the falling sand and gravel. His head broke through the back window of the loader and he was knocked unconscious. Employee #1, who also
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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