OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427314
DURAN EXCAVATING INC.
AURORA, CO·
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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