OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14563779
EMBANKMENT,FRACTURE,RAMP,CONSTRUCTION,SEAT BELT,RIB,BACKHOE,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee fractures rib as backhoe overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was driving an empty, rubber wheel backhoe/front end loader up an ea rthen ramp when a coworker reminded him that he had failed to fasten his seat be lt. Employee #1 stopped the vehicle to comply with this requirement. As he did s o, the backhoe rolled back down the ramp, slid down an embankment, and overturne d. Employee #1 fractured a rib.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 5
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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