OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #665810
FRACTURE,HEAD,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,RIB,STRUCK BY,BACKHOE,BACKING UP,ROAD PAVING
Event description
Employee injured when struck by backhoe
Investigation abstract
Workers were patching a section of a road. Employee #1 was standing bent over, t ouching up the road with a shovel approximately 10 to 15 feet behind the Caterpi llar backhoe, model #416. The operator started to move the backhoe forward when his seat suddenly slid backward, causing him to accidentally put the machine in reverse gear. The rear bucket struck Employee #1 on the head, knocking him to th e ground. The backhoe continued to drive over him but fortunately none of the ti res ran over him. Employee #1 was hospitalized with a broken back and ribs and m ultiple internal injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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