Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 165971.015 - Employee is killed after striking head against tree stumper

Accident Summary Nr: 165971.015 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 04/22/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1743154.015	04/23/2024		561730	Environmental Tree Service, Llc

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on April 22, 2024, an employee was working as a groundskeeper for a tree service. The employee was using a rope to secure and brace a bush to prevent it from coming into contact with the rotating cutting wheel of a Bandit SG-75 Track Stump Grinder. The rope became entangled in rotating wheel and wrapped around the employee's body. The employee was pulled toward the cutting wheel causing him to strike his head on the wheel's debris cover. The employee died from blunt force trauma to his head.

Keywords: Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Catch Point, Caught By, Contusion, Cutting, Entangled, Face, Head, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rope, Rotating Parts, Struck Against, Tree Care, Tree Stumping, Wheel, Wrong Equipment

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1743154.015	44	M	Fatality		Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm

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