Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 143233.015 - Employee Is Killed After Struck In Head By Excavator

**Accident: 143233.015 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 01/26/2022**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1575317.015	01/27/2022		Bradford Boring Llc

At 5:22 p.m. on January 26, 2022, an employee was killed while operating an exca vator. The employee was holding a swivel and beamer off the ground with the exca vator. The employee exited the excavator and his mic/communication device became entangled in the rotating beamer. As the cord to the mic broke, the employee s truck his head on the bucket located directly behind him and was killed.

Keywords: bucket , communication, construction, construction vehicle, entangled, equipment operator, excavator, hard hat, head, loader, loader bucket, material handling, misjudgement, misjudgement of hazardous situation, ppe

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Other heavy construction		Other				0	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1575317.015	43	M	Fatality		Equipment Operator: Heavy	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause:

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