OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221677560

ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT, LLC

SILVER SPRING, MD· 2024-06-05T00:00:00

Event: Aerial Lift, Aerial Truck, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Boom, Boom Truck, Bucket, Bucket Truck, Construction, Dislocated, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Ground, Head, Lift Bucket, Misjudgment, Misjudgment o
NAICS: 561730
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347529786
Employer profile: ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT, LLC
Summary number: 221677560
Report ID: 0352460

Event description

Employee dies from head injuries when aerial truck overturns

Investigation abstract

At 9:30 a.m. on June 5, 2024, an employee was standing in the bucket of an articulating boom lift preparing to remove a tree. The employee extended the boom too far, which resulted in the left outrigger support of the vehicle raising off of the ground. The vehicle overturned on its side causing the employee to fall from an elevation of approximately 75-feet to the compacted soil. The employee died from a fractured skull and his neck being dislocated at the spinal cord.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 60 M

Event type
5

Occupation code
495

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