Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427314

DURAN EXCAVATING INC.

Event
WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, BACKHOE, INATTENTION
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#101223147
Employer profile
DURAN EXCAVATING INC.
Summary number
14427314
Report ID
830500

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

  1. #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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