OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221391196

SELTZER-DOREN MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.

LOS ANGELES, CA· 2021-05-13T00:00:00

Event: Ankle, Blade, Cut, Cutter, Cutting, Grinder, Grinding, Grinding Machine, Inexperience, Laborer, Laceration, Leg, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Removing, Struck Against, Stumper, Supervisor, Tree, Tree Stumping, Unsafe Position, Unstable Position, Unstable Surface
NAICS: 531312
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345319370
Employer profile: SELTZER-DOREN MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INC.
Summary number: 221391196
Report ID: 0950641

Event description

Employee lacerates leg and ankle when struck by stump grinde

Investigation abstract

At 8:00 a.m. on May 13, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a property management company was assisting a coworker (supervisor) with removing a stump. The employee was in front of a powered mobile stump grinder during operation with his hands on the grinder helping to move it back over the stump. The grinder blades struck the employee in his left leg. The employee required hospitalization for surgery for deep lacerations to his leg and ankle.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 74 M

Event type
6

Occupation code
889

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