Accident Report Detail
Accident: 125314.015 - Employee Is Killed When Caught In Trenching Machine
Accident: 125314.015 -- Report ID: 0729700 -- Event Date: 04/09/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1472212.015 | 04/10/2020 | Jomax Construction Company, Inc. | |||||
At 11:30 a.m. on April 9, 2020, Employee #1 and a Coworker, employed by a constr uction company, were engaged in digging a trench for a pipeline. Employee #1 wa s standing on the conveyor of a shut down Wolfe Man 8000 Trencher and was cleani ng dirt from the machine. The coworker, who was the machine operator, caught hi s shirt on the machine's power lever. The coworker moved and inadvertently pull ed the lever to the on position. The wheel of the trencher began to rotate, and Employee #1 was pulled into the wheel and crushed. Employee #1 was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
caught in, cleaning, construction, conveyor, crushed, crushing, equipment operator, excavation, pipeline, rotating parts, rotating shaft, trench digger
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Pipeline | New project or new addition | 0 | 0 | X | |||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1472212.015 | 51 | M | Fatality | Laborers, except construction | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Excavation FatCause: |