Accident Report Detail
Accident: 133628.015 - Employee Is Killed While Hitching Trailer To Truck
Accident: 133628.015 -- Report ID: 0950614 -- Event Date: 10/30/2020 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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1516742.015 | 10/30/2020 | Salazar Construction Co., Inc. | |||||
At approximately 6:30 a.m. on October 30, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a poure d concrete construction company, was working alone in the employer's yard. He w as attempting to hitch a Towmaster TC-16 flat bed equipment trailer to a Ford F3 50 pick up truck. A coworker arrived at the yard at 7:21 a.m. and found Employe e #1 in a kneeling position with his head and both arms pinned and crushed under the equipment trailer adjacent and just in front of the equipment trailer's jac k stand. Camera footage and functional tests of the equipment failed to reveal the cause of this fatality. | |||||||
Keywords:
arm, asphyxiated, blunt force trauma, construction, construction vehicle, crushed, dunnage, fracture, head, hydraulic jack, pickup truck, pinned, skull, trailer
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Contractor's yard/facility | Other | 0 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 1516742.015 | 52 | M | Fatality | Concrete and terrazzo finishers | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Paving FatCause: |