OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427314
WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,EARTHMOVING EQUIP,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,BACKHOE,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee injured when crushed between pipe and backhoe
Investigation abstract
Two sections of 36 in. inner diameter concrete sewer pipe were stored adjacent t o a Caterpillar backhoe. As Employee #1 walked along, a coworker began to swing the backhoe, and he was crushed between the rear of the vehicle and the concrete pipe. Employee #1 was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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