Accident Report Detail
Accident: 115815.015 - Employee Falls From Bed Of Dump Truck, Fractures Hip
Accident: 115815.015 -- Report ID: 0950643 -- Event Date: 12/18/2018 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1372146.015 | 01/17/2019 | Landmark Grading & Paving Inc. | |||||
At 9:30 a.m. on December 18, 2018, an employee was removing PVC pipe from an asp halt pile in the back of a ten wheel dump truck. A Caterpillar 938M front loader caused the truck to shift causing the employee to fall out of the truck. The em ployee fell to the asphalt roadway over 7 feet below suffering a right hip fract ure and was hospitalized. The front loader was being used to elevate employees o nto the dump truck without the use of fall protection. | |||||||
Keywords:
asphalt, dump truck, dump truck bed, equipment operator, fall, fall protection, fracture, front end loader, hip, industrial truck, injury illness prevention program, material handling, motor vehicle, road paving, u
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Highway, road, street | Maintenance or repair | 0 | 0 | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1372146.015 | 61 | M | Hospitalized injury | Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators | FallDist: 7 FallHt:7 Cause: Paving FatCause: |