Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201066289 - Employee's head injured by flying rock

Accident Summary Nr: 201066289 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 05/15/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300794146	05/29/2003	1531	236117	Cass Construction Inc

Abstract: At 2:00 p.m. on May 15, 2003, Employee #1, a manager with Cass Construction, Inc., was pulling shore jacking to place into a lateral utility trench in the middle of a street. A coworker was backing a loader around a nearby street corner to backfill a trench. A cobblestone shot out from under the loader's right rear tire approximately 38 feet and struck Employee #1 on the left side of his face. His head then hit the shore jacking he was carrying. Employee #1 was hospitalized at Mercy Hospital for a fractured left eye socket, cheek bone, and nose.

Keywords: FRACTURE, HEAD, NOSE, TRENCH, LOADER, STRUCK BY, FLYING OBJECT, FACE, BACKING UP

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair		$50,000 to $250,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	300794146			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Supervisors, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Trenching, installing pipe Fatality Cause: Other

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