OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #709436
EXCAVATION,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRUCK,UNSTABLE SOIL,ARM,BACKING UP,CONTUSION,OVERTURN,TRUCK DRIVER
Event description
Employee's arm bruised when truck tips into excavation
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was backing a truck near an excavation site and drove too close to t he edge of a bank. The bank gave way and the truck tipped over into the excavati on. The employee fell against the door and sustained a bruise on his left arm. H e was taken to the hospital, where an X-ray was taken and he was released.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 2
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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