Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #740183

LEO BURGETT

Event
ROCK, BOULDER, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, STRUCK BY
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#106358724
Employer profile
LEO BURGETT
Summary number
740183
Report ID
931500

Event description

Employee killed when crushed by land/rockslide

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and three coworkers were preparing a road bed for logging while work ing alongside a 10 to 15 ton granite boulder. A land/rockslide occurred, crushin g Employee #1 to death.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 31 M

    Nature of injury
    2
    Part of body
    4
    Event type
    6
    Source
    43
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    18
    Hazardous substance
    8880
    Task assigned
    1

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