OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221401342

TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS

BLOOMFIELD, NJ· 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken Bone, Brush Chipper, Chipper, Contusion, Entangled, Eye, Face, Falling Object, Fracture, Hazard Assessment, Hoist, Hoisting Mechanism, Hoistline, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rope, Skull, Struck By, Training, Tree, Tree Branch, Tree Care, Tree Limb, Tree Section, Truck Driver, Unsafe Position, Wood Chipper
NAICS: 561210
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345448823
Employer profile: TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS
Summary number: 221401342
Report ID: 0253420

Event description

Employee sustains facial and eye trauma while another employ

Investigation abstract

At 1:45 p.m. on July 20, 2021, an employee working as a truck driver for a city temporary or permanent blindness in that eye. public works department was waiting for a coworker working in aerial lift bucket to cut a limb from a tree. The employee was standing within close proximity to the aerial lift. The employee sustained blunt trauma, but it is not known exactly how. He may have been struck by the falling tree limb. Or, when the lowered rope became entangled and pulled into and through the Vermeer Model BC-1500 Wood Chipper, DPW Unit 616 (Serial Number: 1VR2161VXE100615), he may have been forced to the ground or into the chipper body. The employee was hospitalized to treat facial bruises and a broken left eye socket with either

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
804

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