OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399059
BUCKELEW CONSTRUCTION
COPPELL, TX·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by backhoe bucket
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had placed a chain around a 15-in.-diameter reinforced concrete pipe and was preparing to hook the chain onto the bucket end of a John Deere 410B ba ckhoe/loader. The backhoe, which had been running idle for about 45 min to 1 hr with no one at the controls, was sitting on its tires with the loader bucket on the ground. The operator climbed on the machine, with the seat facing the backho e bucket. When he engaged the throttle to lower the outriggers, the machine move d rapidly backward. The bucket struck Employee #1 in the head, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MALFUNC IN SECURING/WARNING OP (4)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.