Inspection Detail

Inspection: 107703563 - Patton Wrecking, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Little Rock Area Office

Investigation Summary

Employee #1 was the superintendent of a building construction site. Earth work had just begun on one end and the dirt was excavated and transferred to the other end as fill. Two other contractors had equipment on site performing dirt work by the hour. Employee #1, a qualified operator of heavy equipment, was operating a compactor in a circular clockwise direction coordinating with a small dozer moving the layer of wet dirt around. Employee #1 consistently stayed to the right of the compactor until the last pass when he made a much larger circle and came over behind the dozer. The compactor was at an angle to the edge of the fill dirt and Employee #1 apparently just drove it over the 40 inch high edge of fill dirt. The compactor overturned, crushing Employee #1 to death.

Keywords: UNEVEN GROUND, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, OVERTURN, ROLLER--CONST EQUIP, CONSTRUCTION, CRUSHED