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Accident: 202674842 - Employee Is Crushed And Killed By Excavator

**Accident: 202674842 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 04/24/2013**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
316522317	04/25/2013	1794	Geraldo Vargas Herrera

At approximately 1:00 p.m. on April 24, 2013, Employee #1 was operating an excavator. While the excavator was running, he exited the cab and was crushed between the boom arm and the frame of the cab and died.

Keywords: backhoe boom, caught between, excavator

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		Other		Under $50,000	1	8	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	316522317			Fatality	Other	Excavating and loading machine operators	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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