Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 116189.015 - Employee is killed when thrown from bucket lift

Accident Summary Nr: 116189.015 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 04/29/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1400245.015	04/30/2019		517510	Wayne Martin

Abstract: At 10:00 a.m. on April 29, 2019, an employee was in the bucket of a bucket lift truck without fall protection and began to move cable lines from an old pole to the new pole. The employee let the cable line slack down into the roadway. A concrete truck came down the road and caught the cables and pinned the employee in the bucket and then threw him from the aerial lift bucket, killing him.

Keywords: Aerial Lift, Ejected, Fall, Fall Protection, Power Line Worker, Power Lines, Truck, Truck Crane, Utility Pole

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition				20	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1400245.015	38	M	Fatality		Installers And Repairers	Distance of Fall: 30 feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: 20 feet Cause: Installing equipment (HVAC and other) Fatality Cause:

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