Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170357461 - Employee injured when thrown from backhoe

Accident Summary Nr: 170357461 -- Report ID: 0950653 -- Event Date: 03/08/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126037837	03/12/2001	1623	0	J F Shea Construction Inc

Abstract: At approximately 2:30 p.m. on March 8, 2001, Employee #1, an equipment operator, was operating a Ford Model 755B Backhoe to excavate a smaller trench 26 ft from the edge of the 12 ft diameter pipeline trench. He had just finished moving the backhoe and was setting up when he either left the backhoe in gear or inadvertently placed the backhoe in gear and then moved the throttle. The backhoe began to move forward and went over the side of the trench excavation coming to rest at the bottom of the approximate 20 ft deep sloped trench. Employee #1 was hospitalized with a fracture to the third vertebrate of the neck.

Keywords: FRACTURE, ROLL-OVER, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, NECK, VERTEBRA, BACKHOE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Pipeline		Other		$20,000,000 and over

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	126037837			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Excavating and loading machine operators	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause: Other

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