Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202456463 - Employee Suffers Multiple Injuries Using Milling Machine

Accident Summary Nr: 202456463 -- Report ID: 0950642 -- Event Date: 04/29/2010
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
313381055	04/29/2010	1611	237310	D P Mangan Inc Dba Pave West

Abstract: At approximately 2:48 p.m. on April 29, 2010, Employee #1 replacing street asphalt and adding gutter plates and flow lines in the residential neighborhood. The milling machine was moving northbound on Bilton Way towards Fairview Avenue in order to be repositioned and start another pass at the end of the street. As a coworker was operating the machine, the left crawler track unit inadvertently struck Employee #1 and ran over him. Employee #1 was transported to Huntington Memorial Hospital and admitted the same day. Employee #1 sustained serious trauma injuries to the pelvis, left leg and left foot. Employee #1 received approximately 13 surgeries in the hospital. The causal factor of the accident was that Employee #1 was positioned near the left crawler track unit when he was struck and ran over. The Division found that no Title 8 California Code of Regulation accident-related citation was issued to the employer.

Keywords: MILLING MACHINE, PELVIS, STRUCK BY, RUN OVER, ASPHALT, FOOT, LEG

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair		$500,000 to $1,000,000	1	1

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	313381055			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Paving Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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