Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170570675 - Employee injured when struck by swinging backhoe arm

Accident Summary Nr: 170570675 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 02/23/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126494418	04/11/1996	1541	0	Trehel Corporation

Abstract: Employee #1 was standing on a retaining wall at a construction site, holding up an electrical cord with a shovel. A cement form had broken, and a coworker was attempting to move a Ford model 555D backhoe into position to use the bucket. As the driver was exiting the backhoe to help Employee #1, the gloves in his back pocket hit the boom control lever on the machine. The boom moved to the right, struck Employee #1, and knocked him into some metal wall studs of the structure under construction. Employee #1 later went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a pulled muscle and contusion to the left shoulder.

Keywords: SHOULDER, BOOM, CONSTRUCTION, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, FALL, STRUCK BY, UNMANNED, BACKHOE, CONTUSION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126494418			Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Carpenters

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