Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14434211 - Employee injured as tractor slips down highway embankment

Accident Summary Nr: 14434211 -- Report ID: 0951510 -- Event Date: 12/22/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103903225	12/22/1988	9621	0	Dot-Highways Div, Oahu District

Abstract: Employee #1 was cutting grass on a freeway embankment using a Kubota tractor, model #L245, serial #L245-53373, engine model #DH1101-A, with rollover protection (ROPS L185/L245 ROPS model L1162, maximum 4,000 lb, serial #2301) and a hydraulic sickle bar attachment. He was traveling backwards on the embankment, approximately 80 ft above the freeway, when the front end of the tractor started to slide toward the edge of the embankment on the freeway side. Employee #1 turned the tires toward the slide but the tractor started going over the edge of the embankment. Employee #1 rode the tractor down the slope and sustained a fractured left arm and leg and a puncture to his back. Coworkers were approximately 1/2 mile northwest on the freeway edge, beyond view of the accident.

Keywords: EMBANKMENT, FRACTURE, HIGHWAY, SLIP, LAWN MOWER, TRACTOR, ARM, LOST CONTROL, SLOPE, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103903225			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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