Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201112935 - Employee killed when a backhoe drops a pipe on him

Accident Summary Nr: 201112935 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 09/22/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126176528	09/22/2000	1521	0	Sme Construction, Inc.

Abstract: A backhoe operator was lifting a reinforced concrete pipe using a hairpin device weighing approximately 2000 pounds. Employees were laying a sewer line and were trying to align the male and female ends of the pipes. The backhoe lifted the pipe while Employee #1 went under it to add sand where the pipe was to lay. As he was adding sand the pipe fell off the hairpin device and landed on the Employee #1 killing him.

Keywords: PINNED, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, FALL, STRUCK BY, SLING, BACKHOE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000		20	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	126176528			Fatality	Other	Construction trades, n.e.c.	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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