OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691998
UTAH STATE DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION
OREM, UT·
Event description
Employee's leg fractured by falling auger
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working on an electric system in an area where other workers wer e digging a hole with a metal auger. While the metal auger was being lifted to t he dump truck bed, a bolt holding the auger broke. The auger fell, hitting the d ump truck bed, then tipped over and struck Employee #1's right leg, breaking it in two places. Employee #1 was taken to Utah Valley Hospital, where he was hospi talized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 683
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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