Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 115652.015 - Employee is injured when struck by falling excavator bucket

Accident Summary Nr: 115652.015 -- Report ID: 1032500 -- Event Date: 04/22/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1395461.015	04/23/2019		237110	Dahle Construction Llc

Abstract: At 9:30 a.m. on April 22, 2019, an employee of a water and sewer line construction company was working at a residential site. He was in an excavation and standing inside a trench box when the bucket of an excavator fell off the excavator and landed on top of him. The employee was transported to the hospital for treatment of traumatic head and back injuries.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force trauma, Bucket , Crushed, Excavation, Excavator, Falling Object, Head, Installing, Pipe, Residential Construction, Struck By, Trench Box

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			0	0

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1395461.015	20	M	Hospitalized injury		Pipelayer	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause:

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