OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #818237
CON AM INC.
PEMBROKE PINES, FL·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by a manhole pipe
Investigation abstract
Two employees were in a trench when a 235 Caterpillar backhoe was placing a ceme nt manhole into position. The wire rope or pins supporting the load slipped out and the load struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.