Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 81689.015 - Employee is killed when caught between the boom and truck

Accident Summary Nr: 81689.015 -- Report ID: 0626300 -- Event Date: 12/14/2015
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1112464.015	12/14/2015		237130	Metro Pole Setting Company, Inc.

Abstract: At 10:57 a.m. on December 14, 2015, an employee was using an oxygen-acetylene cutting torch to cut a boom support stand off of a truck-mounted hole digger. When the employee cut the boom support stand from the truck-mounted hole digger with the cutting torch, the employee's head was crushed between the boom and the truck's headache rack. The boom was not secured before the employee cut the support stand. The suffered from head trauma and was killed.

Keywords: Crushing, Cutting And Burning, Falling Object, Support Posts, Truck Boom

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1112464.015	57	M	Fatality

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