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Accident: 143264.015 - Employee Is Struck And Killed By Falling Concrete Pipe
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1575509.015 | 01/31/2022 | William A. Hazel, Inc. |
At 10:30 a.m. on January 31, 2022, an employee worked in a twelve-foot-deep tren ch with sloped sides to install a storm drain system. A coworker, operated an ex cavator (Volvo EC350EL) to move a concrete pipe (forty-two-inch wide by eight fo ot long, sixty-nine hundred pounds) from a staging area and into the trench. As the coworker rotated the excavator with the pipe attached to the bucket, the pip e broke free and rolled down the slope of the trench and struck the employee. Th e employee received blunt force trauma to the torso and legs and was killed.
Keywords:
blunt force trauma, concrete pipe, drain pipe, excavator, falling object, installing, leg, operating, operator, storm, struck by, torso, trench
| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-family dwelling | New project or new addition | 2 | X | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1575509.015 | 52 | M | Fatality | Pipelayer | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: |