OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #953505
WILLIAM B HOPKE CO., INC
ALEXANDRIA, VA·
Event description
Employee struck on head by falling dirt
Investigation abstract
Employees were working in an excavation that had somewhat sloped sides. Employee #1 was bent over working on a pipe when a large clump of earth rolled down the side and struck him on the head.
Victim
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#1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 27 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- OTHER (43)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.