OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221423429

NACIMIENTO WATER COMPANY

BRADLEY, CA· 2021-08-20T00:00:00

Event: Aligning, Ankle, Broken, Flying Object, Fracture, Incorrect Equipment, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Lack of Work Procedures, Leg, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Pipe, Rope, Struck By, Tension, Tractor, Unsafe Position, Water Pipe, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 221320
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345705800
Employer profile: NACIMIENTO WATER COMPANY
Summary number: 221423429
Report ID: 0950647

Event description

Employee fractures legs, ankles when struck by pipe under te

Investigation abstract

At 2:00 p.m. on August 20, 2021, an employee working for a water services lower legs. The employee was hospitalized to treat fractured legs and ankles. company was connecting rope to the end of a pipe. The employee was working with a coworker realigning a 6-inch pipe from the lake which supplies water to the water distribution company. The employee had attached one end of a 200-foot-long 1-inch-thick rope to the end of the 6-inch PVC pipe and the other end of the rope to the Skip & Drag tractor driven by the coworker. The employee stood back from the pipe as the coworker drove the tractor trying to realign the pipe by putting tension on the rope. The rope broke approximately 80 feet from the pipe, which was under tension. The pipe sprung back and struck the employee in his

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 63 M

Event type
1

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