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Accident: 201636438 - Employee Is Killed In Landslide

**Accident: 201636438 -- Report ID: 1054111 -- Event Date: 11/24/2006**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
310279583	11/27/2006	1611	Dennis D Maulding

At approximately 8:30 a.m. on November 24, 2006, Employee #1 was repairing a logging road. He had positioned his backhoe on the road and was using the bucket to work on the drainage ditch on the inside of the road. The road had water running over it and the ground was saturated from earlier rain. The ground under the backhoe gave way and started a landslide. The backhoe slid with the landslide and ended up in a creek bed approximately 250 ft below. Employee #1 either jumped or was ejected from the backhoe. He was found dead in the creek bed.

Keywords: ejected, equipment operator, slippery surface, backhoe, slope

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	310279583			Fatality	Fracture	Supervisors, material moving equipment operators	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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