Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201143914 - Employee's Leg and Foot Run Over by Dump Truck

Accident Summary Nr: 201143914 -- Report ID: 0950631 -- Event Date: 07/25/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305351330	07/30/2003	1611	237310	Cal State Paving

Abstract: At approximately 9:30 a.m. on July 25, 2003, Employee #1, a full-time foreman, was working as a contractor for the Placentia Unified School District. He was excavating and paving pads at Esperanza High School. Mobile classrooms were going to sit on the pads. Employee #1 parked his assigned truck next to the spoil pile. A loader operator was removing the spoil and placing it into the dump truck (1988 Ford, Model Number L8000/5S57844) that was being driven by another employee. Employee #1 was standing at the rear of his truck with the tailgate down, reviewing the drawings. The dump truck driver was driving forward towards the pile when he was signaled by the loader operator to turn around and back into the pile. The dump truck driver backed into Employee #1, striking his right leg and pinning him against the tailgate. Employee #1 stated that he heard the back-up alarm on the truck, but he did not turn around to see where the truck was. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures to his right leg and foot and was hospitalized.

Keywords: BACK-UP ALARM, EXCAVATION, FRACTURE, PINNED, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, DUMP TRUCK, STRUCK BY, BACKING UP, FOOT, LEG

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other building		New project or new addition		Under $50,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	305351330			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Paving Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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