Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 140134.015 - Employee sustains facial and eye trauma while another employ

Accident Summary Nr: 140134.015 -- Report ID: 0253420 -- Event Date: 07/20/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1544882.015	07/26/2021		561210	Township Of Bloomfield Public Works And Parks

Abstract: At 1:45 p.m. on July 20, 2021, an employee working as a truck driver for a city public works department was waiting for a coworker working in aerial lift bucket to cut a limb from a tree. The employee was standing within close proximity to the aerial lift. The employee sustained blunt trauma, but it is not known exactly how. He may have been struck by the falling tree limb. Or, when the lowered rope became entangled and pulled into and through the Vermeer Model BC-1500 Wood Chipper, DPW Unit 616 (Serial Number: 1VR2161VXE100615), he may have been forced to the ground or into the chipper body. The employee was hospitalized to treat facial bruises and a broken left eye socket with either temporary or permanent blindness in that eye.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Broken Bone, Brush Chipper, Chipper, Contusion, Entangled, Eye, Face, Falling Object, Fracture, Hazard Assessment, Hoist, Hoisting Mechanism, Hoistline, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rope, Skull, Struck By, Training, Tree, Tree Branch, Tree Care, Tree Limb, Tree Section, Truck Driver, Unsafe Position, Wood Chipper

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1544882.015	26	M	Hospitalized injury		Truck drivers, heavy

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