Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14569693 - Employee Dies When Struck By Front End Loader Bucket

Accident Summary Nr: 14569693 -- Report ID: 1054118 -- Event Date: 08/11/1993
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
123717068	08/11/1993	1711	0	Emk Contractors Inc

Abstract: Employee #1 and a coworker, an equipment operator, were setting manholes at a construction site. Employee #1 was standing in a shallow excavation awaiting the manhole ring to be set into position by the bucket of the front end loader. As the front end loader approached, its front wheel rolled over the edge of the excavation. Although he attempted to retreat, Employee #1 was killed when he became trapped between the wall of the excavation and the bucket of the front end loader.

Keywords: excavation, front end loader, equipment operator, construction, caught between, unstable surface, struck by, manhole

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	123717068			Fatality	Fracture	Supervisors; plumbers, pipefitters & steamfitters

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