OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221645138

PONCE EQUIPMENT & MORE

ARCOLA, TX· 2024-02-22T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Concrete Form Work, Construction, Construction vehicle, Fracture, Hard Hat, Head, Helmet, Laborer, Lumber, Material Handling, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Pickup Truck, Riding on Equipment, Seat Belt, Skull, Struck Against, Struck By, Tailgate, Unsafe Position, Unstable Position, Wood
NAICS: 238110
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347309742
Employer profile: PONCE EQUIPMENT & MORE
Summary number: 221645138
Report ID: 0626700
Project type: A
Construction end-use: I

Event description

Employee fractures skull when knocked from truck, later dies

Investigation abstract

At 10:00 p.m. on February 22, 2024, an employee and a coworker who were working and died from his injuries two days later. The coworker also sustained injuries but survived. as construction laborers for a concrete contractor were riding on the tailgate of a pickup truck to a new location. The crew was moving a 20-foot piece of lumber to the new location on the jobsite. The employee and the coworker had laid the piece of wood across the toolbox in the bed of the truck. While driving, the wood was hanging off the side the truck causing it to strike a stationary wire reel that lay in their path. This caused the piece wood to be thrown backward striking the employee and the coworker. The employee was thrown from the truck causing him to strike his head on the ground. He was hospitalized

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 27 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
869

Fall distance
3

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