Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170841415 - Employee killed when crushed by backhoe boom

Accident Summary Nr: 170841415 -- Report ID: 0950615 -- Event Date: 08/04/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125616284	08/07/2000	1623	0	North Bay Construction

Abstract: Employee #1 and coworkers were installing a new water main along a public street. Employee #1 was driving a CAT 416C loader/backhoe, company #BH8, toward the work area after having retrieved the crew's lunchboxes from the crew truck at the far end of the job site. He dismounted and walked to the left rear quarter, leaving the machine idling. Employee #1 was reaching in over the left swing foot pedal to get the lunches when he hit the pedal. The boom swung left, crushing him against the raised outrigger. Employee #1 was killed. He had placed himself in the danger zone between the boom and the outrigger. There was a sticker on the boom warning workers to stay out of that area.

Keywords: LOADER/BACKHOE, BOOM, WORK RULES, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, FOOT CONTROL, CONSTRUCTION, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Sewer/water treatment plant		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	125616284			Fatality	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Operating engineers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Erecting structural steel Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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