OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #971408
TRENCH BOX,DISMANTLING,PINNED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,INATTENTION,TRUCK DRIVER
Event description
Employee hospitalized when struck by falling trench shield
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a truck driver, was standing on the ground next to an excavator tal king to its operator. The truck driver had her back to a worker for another comp any who was dismantling a 16 ft by 6 ft trenching shield. The worker, who was cu tting the bracing free with a cutting torch, did not know that Employee #1 was s tanding next to the trench shield. When the side of the trench shield came apart , it fell over and struck Employee #1, trapping her underneath. She was hospital ized. Employee #1 should not have been standing where she was, and the worker wh o was dismantling the trench shield should have checked to make sure no one was in the vicinity.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 27 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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