Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 96118.015 - Employee doing dust control is found unconscious

Accident Summary Nr: 96118.015 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 04/17/2017
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1228015.015	04/26/2017		238220	Burtech Pipeline Inc

Abstract: At 11:45 p.m. on April 17, 2017, Employee #1, employed by a pipeline company, was engaged in dust control at the site of a water pipeline installation along a road. A passerby found Employee #1 unconscious and called for emergency services. Employee #1 was transported to the hospital. He was admitted and treated for a shoulder contusion with some nerve injury. During the subsequent investigation, Employee #1 reported that he had no memory of the event that caused him to lose consciousness, and there were no eyewitnesses. He did report that he had been attempting to connect the water tank trailer to his work truck. He appears to have sustained a struck by injury.

Keywords: Connecting, Construction, Dust, Pipeline, Shoulder, Struck By, Tank Truck, Unconsciousness, Water

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Pipeline		Maintenance or repair		$50,000 to $250,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1228015.015	43	M	Hospitalized injury		Construction laborers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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