Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200782191 - Employee Killed When Struck By Piece Of Broken Sledgehammer

Accident Summary Nr: 200782191 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 12/03/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103628111	12/04/2001	1629	0	Trac-Work, Inc.

Abstract: During the removal of railroad rails for the purpose of refurbishing the tracks and ties Employee #1 was struck by a 1-cm by 0.5-cm shard of a fractured sledgehammer head. The sledgehammer head produced the single shard when it struck a punch that was being used to drive a heal filler bolt from the rail; heal filler block and joint bar. The shard struck and entered the anterior of Employee #1's neck. Upon entry the shard penetrated to a depth of 4 in. perforating the right carotid, left carotid, and left subclavian arteries; left pleural cavity; and the apex of the left lung. Employee #1 was wearing the customary and usual personal protective equipment, safety glasses, hardhat, leather gloves and steel toe boots. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: LUNG, DEMOLITION, CONSTRUCTION, NECK, RAILROAD TRACK, STRUCK BY, ARTERY, HAND TOOL, RAILROAD, PUNCTURE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Manufacturing plant		Alteration or rehabilitation		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	103628111			Fatality	Puncture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Demolition Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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