OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221382690

PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION AND AGGREGATES, INC.

HEBER, CA· 2021-06-22T00:00:00

Event: Automotive Repair, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Concrete Floor, Contusion, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Head, Laborer, Loader, Maintenance, Mechanic, Motor Vehicle, Nerve damage, Repair, Service Technician, Servicing, Traumatic Brain Injury, Unsafe Position
NAICS: 212321
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345394217
Employer profile: PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION AND AGGREGATES, INC.
Summary number: 221382690
Report ID: 0950632

Mining operation

This is a mining-sector operation (NAICS 212321). For MSHA mine-safety and violation records for this operator, see miningincidents.org →

Event description

Employee sustains head and back injuries in fall from loader

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 p.m. on June 22, 2021, an employee working as a a service worker for a protection. The employee was hospitalized to treat head and back injuries, which resulted in contusions and neurologic symptoms. On June 30, 2021, the employee returned to work. sand and gravel mining company was working in the equipment maintenance facility. The employee was assisting a coworker, the supervisor, with servicing a Caterpillar 988H Loader (Serial #OBXY01014). The employee was situated on the lift cylinder pin of the loader while guiding the hydraulic tilt cylinder out of the equipment. During this process, the employee fell approximately 6 feet off the loader and landed on the concrete floor. The coworker was on the opposite side of the loader but witnessed the employee's fall. The coworker found the employee on his back after the fall. The employee had not been wearing any fall

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
869

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