Accident Report Detail

Accident: 200602993 - Employee Is Killed When Struck By Excavator Bucket

**Accident: 200602993 -- Report ID: 0625400 -- Event Date: 06/23/2005**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
307953877	06/23/2005	1611	Lone Star Infrastructure

On June 23, 2005, an employee was working in a trench. The bucket of a caterpillar excavator came loose and off the arm of the excavator, rolled into the trench and struck the employee on the back, crushing him against the sewer pipe and killing him.

Keywords: fracture, head, excavator, struck by, flying object

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over		13	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	307953877			Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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