OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #992925
CLEARANCE,HEAD,HARD HAT,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,BACKHOE
Event description
Employee killed when struck in head by road culvert
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was part of a six-man crew that was pulling an old 12 in. diameter, lvert. As the pipe was hoisted it resisted momentarily and then snapped from its resting place toward the two men. The ends were bouncing up and down as the ope rator stopped all motion. Both men were fleeing the site when Employee #1, who w as not wearing a hard hat, was struck by the culvert behind his right ear. He su stained a fractured skull and was killed. The backhoe's position at 45 degrees n orth of center caused the culvert to snap in that direction. 40 ft long corrugated steel culvert from an open road crossing. The crew was usi ng a backhoe parked on the center line of the road. A 12 ft 3/8 in. alloy chain was connected at one end to the teeth of the bucket on the backhoe and chocked a round the culvert at the other. A 20 ft section was hoisted without incident. Th e remaining 20 ft section was chocked at the north end with the chain sling but as the operator began hoisting the pipe bent upward and the chain moved to the b ent area, 6 ft from the north end. Employee #1 and a coworker were standing on t he south end of the road crossing, about 10 ft away from the south end of the cu
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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