Accident Report Detail
Accident: 110961.015 - Employee Is Caught Between Directional Boring Machine And Ve
Accident: 110961.015 -- Report ID: 0524200 -- Event Date: 11/14/2018 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1360097.015 | 11/14/2018 | Npl Construction Co. | |||||
At 10:00 a.m. on November 14, 2018, Employee #1 was operating a Vermeer 24x40 direction boring machine moving the machine into position. While moving the machine into position, Employee #1 became pinned between the boring machine and the motor vehicle. A coworker, a laborer working in the area facing away from the machine, turned around and observed Employee #1 pinned between the machine and the motor vehicle. The coworker ran to the machine and moved it off Employee #1 using the rear controls of the machine. Employee #1 was unresponsive after being unpinned and Emergency Services were called. Employee #1 was a trained equipment operator and had years of experience operating directional boring machines. Employee #1 was hired specifically to operate the directional boring machine and was the only one to operate the machine. Employee #1 sustained multiple crushing injuries and was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
pinned, crushing, boring machine, motor vehicle, caught between
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Pipeline | Other | X | |||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1360097.015 | 62 | M | Fatality | Other | Operating engineers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: FatCause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating |