Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202488045 - Employeee Is Struck on the Foot by the Boom of Excavator

Accident Summary Nr: 202488045 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 09/22/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311866032	11/05/2008	1623	237110	Sj Louis Construction, Inc.

Abstract: On September 22, 2008, Employee #1 was kneeling on his left knee while rigging a trench box. The trench box was to be attached to a slip hook on a clevis at the end of an excavator boom that was resting above the employee, on the top edge of the trench box. A coworker, the excavator's operator, was at the machine's controls. Without warning, the boom of the excavator slipped off the trench box, fell, and landed on employee's right foot. Employee was hospitalized.

Keywords: EXCAVATION, RIGGING, TRENCH BOX, EXCAVATOR, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, FOOT

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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	311866032			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause: Other

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