OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888800
FRACTURE,OBSTRUCTED VIEW,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKHOE,ANKLE,INATTENTION
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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