OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221733884

HODGES & HODGES ENTERPRISES LLC

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA— 2025-01-09T00:00:00

Event: Caught Between, Construction, Construction vehicle, Container, Counterweight, Crushed, Engineering Controls, Excavator, Filling, Filling Station, Gas, Insufficient Supervision, Laborer, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Metal container, Pinch Point, Pinched, Pinned, Struck By, Swing, Unsafe Position, Work Surface
NAICS: 237990
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347975005
Employer profile: HODGES & HODGES ENTERPRISES LLC
Summary number: 221733884
Report ID: 0316300
Project type: E
Construction end-use: P

Event description

Employee is killed from multiple injuries when pinned by exc

Investigation abstract

At 1:30 p.m. on January 9, 2025, Employee #1 was working as a construction laborer for a civil engineering firm and was refueling gas canisters. A coworker was operating a Link Belt 250X4 LF hydraulic excavator on the transfer barge during a dredging operation. Employee #1 was working on the barge within the swing radius of the excavator. The excavator rotated and pinned the employee between the counterweight and the metal fuel container. Employee #1 was fatally injured due to multiple injuries.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 26 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
7010

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