OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #890624
BLADES MATERIALS, INC.
POCOMOKE CITY, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when pinned by overturned loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, who was operating a skid steer loader, and a self employed contract ver and pinned him to the ground and the previously installed piping. He was hos pitalized with multiple fractures. He was not wearing a seat belt. or were constructing a containment wall along the perimeter of a beached barge s o that gravel could be off loaded onto it by incoming barges. The skid steer loa der was being used to lift and position 28 ft long piping while the contractor w elded the pipe into place. When the barge was beached, it created a 50 ft sloped surface on the deck, and the equipment was being operated in the direction of t he decline. The pipe was being secured by the bucket attachment on the loader. D uring one lift, the loader began to tip over. Employee #1 either purposely exite d through the front or was ejected from the operator's seat. The loader tipped o
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 783
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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