Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 115815.015 - Employee falls from bed of dump truck, fractures hip

Accident Summary Nr: 115815.015 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 12/18/2018
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1372146.015	01/17/2019		324121	Landmark Grading & Paving Inc.

Abstract: At 9:30 a.m. on December 18, 2018, an employee was removing PVC pipe from an asphalt pile in the back of a ten wheel dump truck. A Caterpillar 938M front loader caused the truck to shift causing the employee to fall out of the truck. The employee fell to the asphalt roadway over 7 feet below suffering a right hip fracture and was hospitalized. The front loader was being used to elevate employees onto the dump truck without the use of fall protection.

Keywords: Asphalt, Dump Truck, Dump Truck Bed, Equipment Operator, Fall, Fall Protection, Fracture, Front End Loader, Hip, Industrial Truck, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Road Paving, Unstable Position, Unstable Surface

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair			0	0

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1372146.015	61	M	Hospitalized injury		Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators	Distance of Fall: 7 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 7 feet Cause: Paving Fatality Cause:

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