Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170888291 - Employee injured when run over by tractor wheel

Accident Summary Nr: 170888291 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 06/08/1997
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125506568	06/12/1997	3841	0	Westberg Mfg

Abstract: Employee #1 was using a 1948 Ford tractor with a 5 ft diameter, PTO-driven rotary brush hog to mow brush and weeds in open areas around an instrument manufacturing building. He was apparently watching the path of the tractor forward and of the mower behind when the right rear wheel of tractor ran up on a stump. He fell off the left side and the left rear wheel ran across his pelvic area. Employee #1 sustained hairline fractures of his pelvis in two places, and of his lower backbone.

Keywords: FRACTURE, BACK, LAWN MOWER, PELVIS, FALL, TRACTOR, RUN OVER, INATTENTION, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	125506568			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Farm workers

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