OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14526818

CLEARANCE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,DUMPSTER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,BACKHOE,INATTENTION

1986-02-04T00:00:00

Event: CLEARANCE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,DUMPSTER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,BACKHOE,INATTENTION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14526818
Report ID: 418800

Event description

Employee crushed and killed between backhoe and dumpster

Investigation abstract

A crew of three had just finished unhooking three dumpsters from a backhoe that had moved the dumpsters from a concrete pad. The backhoe was then moved from the front, east side of the dumpsters to the right, north side, where it was going to remove fence posts that were on the concrete pad. When the backhoe operator s wung around the superstructure of the backhoe, Employee #1 was crushed and kille d between it and the dumpster.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 20 M

Nature of injury
3

Part of body
1

Event type
2

Source
27

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
8

Task assigned
2

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