OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221432644

WILLIAM A. HAZEL, INC.

HERNDON, VA· 2022-01-31T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force trauma, Concrete Pipe, Drain Pipe, Excavator, Falling Object, Installing, Leg, Operating, Operator, Storm, Struck By, Torso, Trench
NAICS: 238910
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345755094
Employer profile: WILLIAM A. HAZEL, INC.
Summary number: 221432644
Report ID: 0355114
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

Employee is struck and killed by falling concrete pipe

Investigation abstract

At 10:30 a.m. on January 31, 2022, an employee worked in a twelve-foot-deep trench with sloped sides to install a storm drain system. A coworker, operated an excavator (Volvo EC350EL) to move a concrete pipe (forty-two-inch wide by eight foot long, sixty-nine hundred pounds) from a staging area and into the trench. As the coworker rotated the excavator with the pipe attached to the bucket, the pipe broke free and rolled down the slope of the trench and struck the employee. The employee received blunt force trauma to the torso and legs and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 52 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7038

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