OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14399075
K & S UTILITY CONTRACTOR, INC.
DALLAS, TX·
Event description
Employee dies after arm crushed between equipment in trench
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a laborer, was compacting soil in an approximately 2 1/2 ft deep by 3 ft wide trench that had been previously backfilled. The walk-behind compactor has its controls at the very top center of the machine. Employee #1's arm was l ocated at the operating controls, and he was steering the compactor underneath a backhoe that was straddling the trench. As he guided the compactor under the ba ckhoe, there was not enough room to clear the frame and Employee #1's arm became trapped between the two pieces of equipment. He suffered a crushing injury to h is right arm; subsequent complications led to his death.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- ARM-MULT (2)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- HAND TOOL (POWERED) (21)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- 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.