Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 118399.015 - Employee breaks bones, incurs concussion in fall from truck

Accident Summary Nr: 118399.015 -- Report ID: 0728500 -- Event Date: 06/21/2019
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1416764.015	07/19/2019		562119	Ted'S Trash Service

Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 2019, an employee was working on top of a Mack F493 NewWay Front-Loader Dump Truck with three coworkers attempting to get the truck bucket back on the tracks. The employee was not wearing fall protection equipment and fell off the top of the truck approximately 12 feet to the gravel parking lot below. The employee was hospitalized to treat a concussion and 13 broken bones throughout his body. Drugs or alcohol was believed to be a factor.

Keywords: Arm, Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Bucket , Concussion, Dump Truck, Equipment Operator, Face, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Foot, Fracture, Hand, Head, Hip, Intoxicated, Knee, Leg, Malfunction, Material Handling, Mech Malfunction, Neck, PPE, PPE Hazard Assessment, Parking Lot, Pavement, Torso, Work Surface, Wrist

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1416764.015	58	M	Hospitalized injury

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