OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #964551
EJECTED,FRACTURE,INSTALLING,BRAKE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TRUCK,ARM,LEG
Event description
Employee injured when thrown from utility truck bucket
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, who was a lineman, and a coworker, who was a truck driver helper, w aining program, a full-time safety director, and a disciplinary program. Employe e #1's belt and lanyard were in the truck. ere installing a new service drop to a house. Employee #1 was elevated in the bu cket tying new wire and the coworker was standing behind the truck. Employee #1 said that the coworker hollered, "Look out," but the next thing he knew, the tru ck was going down the driveway with him still in the elevated bucket. When the t ruck came to a stop against the house, Employee #1 was thrown approximately 52 f t. He sustained a fractured arm and leg and a bruised liver and kidney, for whic h he was hospitalized. A subsequent investigation revealed that the coworker app arently had not properly set the brakes on the truck. The employer has a good tr
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 577
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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