OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691089
SALT LAKE CITY COUNTY LANDFILL
WEST VALLEY CITY, UT·
Event description
Employee's leg fractured when knocked into garbage
Investigation abstract
At 7:00 a.m. on June 19, 1986, Employee #1, a 52-year-old SOS temporary, arrived at the Salt Lake City County landfill, where he had been sent to work for the d ay. He was taken to the north hill and instructed to direct incoming garbage tru cks to several locations where they would dump their loads. At approximately 2:1 5 p.m., a driver for a recyclable waste paper company saw Employee #1 being push ed into a pile of garbage by the 8 ft high blade of a D & Cat. The operator of t he Cat stopped and the employee was pulled free from the pile of garbage. Employ ee #1 sustained a compound fracture of his right leg.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 52 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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