OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824383
B. GREEN & CO, INC.
ARBUTUS, MD·
Event description
Employee's foot crushed by dumpster
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a porter in the housekeeping department, was at the east dock side of a warehouse emptying trash from a Tip-A-Load model SDH-H8 portable metal dump ster into a trash compactor that was located aproximately 6 ft from the inside o f the building. The dumpster came off its track and fell on the employee's left foot. Employee #1 was wearing Reebok tennis shoes and received a cut on his four th toe that required four stiches. He had received some on-the-job training. The 5 1/2 in. wide by 5 ft 9 in. long by 3 ft 4 1/2 in. deep, 3,500 lb capacity dum pster was made by the Edoa Equipment Company of America, Hialeah, FL. Repair wor k had been done on the unit one year before the accident.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 453
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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