OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14562169
CHEST,STEEL PLATE,STRUCK AGAINST,CONSTRUCTION,TRENCH,CRUSHED,SHORING,STRUCK BY
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BY STEEL PLATE IN TRENCH
Investigation abstract
The employee was securing a 7-ft by 12-ft by 1-ft-thick steel plate as part of s horing in a 7-ft-deep trench. The steel plate was lowered into the hole via a ba ckhoe. The employee detached a chain from the top of the plate that was affixed to the backhoe and the plate fell onto the employee, crushing him against a prev iously installed steel plate and killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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