Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200600310 - Employee killed when buried by concrete manhole caps

Accident Summary Nr: 200600310 -- Report ID: 0625400 -- Event Date: 07/23/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300438231	07/24/1998	1794	0	Ethridge Construction, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 was operating a backhoe when the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the job site. He jumped off the backhoe to hide in a pile of concrete manhole caps but failed to first disengage the vehicle's gears. The backhoe continued to move and it ran into the pile of concrete caps, dislodging them. Employee #1 was crushed under the shifting concrete caps and died of a fractured neck.

Keywords: FRACTURE, MANHOLE COVER, VEHICLE IN GEAR, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED, NECK, STRUCK BY, BURIED, BACKHOE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000	1	3	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	300438231			Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Forming Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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