OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427157
STERLING CONSTRUCTION CO.
GREELEY, CO·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by trench digger
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a trench digger operator, and a coworker decided to continue workin g after their normal shift. The coworker was setting the alignment stakes for th e operator when he noted the operator was not in his seat on the digger. After s etting another stake, the coworker walked back about 150 ft to the digger and fo und Employee #1's body approximately 28 ft behind the machine. He had been crush ed and killed. Employee #1 had fallen from his seat or in some other way gotten in front of the crawler track.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 66 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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