Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 156653.015 - Employee dies when crushed by excavator

Accident Summary Nr: 156653.015 -- Report ID: 0418600 -- Event Date: 05/23/2023
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1672655.015	05/24/2023		221210	Equix Energy Services, Llc

Abstract: At 11:30 a.m. on May 23, 2023, an employee working for a natural gas distribution company was operating a John Deere 35G excavator. The employee was working alongside a coworker who was operating a John Deere 60G excavator. The employee and coworker were working on a hillside moving pipe to be installed. The employee was operating the excavator on a roughly 16-degree grade with his tracks perpendicular to the pipe being moved. The employee was using his excavator to hold the piping off the ground so it wouldn't scrape. The coworker was pulling the pipe with his excavator when the boom arm of the employee's excavator reached its limit for the angle it could swing. After the employee couldn't swing the arm any further, the coworker still continued to pull the pipe. This caused the employee's excavator to tip and fall over onto the employee. The employee was killed when he was crushed by the excavator.

Keywords: Abdomen, Caught Between, Chest, Construction, Construction vehicle, Crushed, Driving, Excavator, Falling Object, Hill, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Pipe, Roll-Over, Slope, Training

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Sewer/water treatment plant		New project or new addition					X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Construction
1	1672655.015	27	M	Fatality		Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Installing underground plumbing conduit Fatality Cause:

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