OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888800
PAUL'S UTILITY COMPANY, INC
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
Employee's ankle fractured when struck by backhoe
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a pipelayer, was watching coworkers use a Leibehr 932 power shovel to push a trench box under insulated electric lines. The operator had extended t he boom horizontally to maintain clearance below the lines, which obstructed his vision to the right. A signalman positioned in front of the power shovel yelled to the operator to track ahead. They were both watching the clearance of the tr ench box and the overhead wires. Employee #1 was standing to the right of the bo om and also watching the wires. The power shovel had only moved approximately 2 ft forward when the right track struck Employee #1. He sustained a fractured ank le and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 21 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters (585)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- 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.