Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201795879 - Employee suffers a fracture when ejected from a scraper

Accident Summary Nr: 201795879 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 05/30/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301327854	06/07/2002	1794	0	L T Excavation

Abstract: On May 30, 2002, Cal/OSHA West Covina District Office received a report regarding Employee #1, an employee of LT Excavating, who was involved in an industrial accident. The site is a landfill and a future site for a recycling center. Employee #1, a heavy equipment operator, worked for the employer a total of 9 hours before the accident. As Employee #1 drove the Caterpillar 623B scraper up a steep road he lost control of the scraper. The scraper rolled backward down the steep road, through the berm, down the hill, through K rail barriers, a chain link fence, and came to rest at the bottom of the hill in an office parking lot. Employee #1 stated that he unbuckled his seat belt and jumped out of the scraper while it was going down the hill. Employee #1 was sustained a compression fracture of lower back and a broken collarbone and hospitalized.

Keywords: EJECTED, LOADING, EXCAVATION, FRACTURE, SCRAPER, COLLARBONE, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, BACK, LOST CONTROL

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Excavation, landfill		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	301327854			Hospitalized injury	Other	Excavating and loading machine operators

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