OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #735183
STRANGE BROS GRADING
TAYLORS, SC·
Event description
Employee crushed and killed when tree falls on backhoe cab
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was clearing out a wooded area by digging around the bases of trees to loosen them and then pushing them over with a backhoe bucket. He was using wa s a Liebherr backhoe, serial #S175120. One of the trees he was working on fell o nto the backhoe cab, crushing the cab and the employee. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 11
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 853
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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