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Accident: 200671782 - Employee Killed In Fall From Loader Bucket

Accident: 200671782 -- Report ID: 0418800 -- Event Date: 04/07/1999
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
30188334404/07/19991623A.P. Paving Co.
On April 7, 1999, Employee #1, age 20, was part of a crew installing a French drain within 3 ft of the road at a construction site. The foreman came by driving a Case front end loader, model 621, and picked up Employee #1, allowing him to ride sitting in the right side of the loader bucket. He had moved about 30 ft when Employee #1 fell out of the bucket. His head was crushed under the right wheel of the loader, and he was killed.
Keywords: head, loader bucket, work rules, construction, riding on equipment, crushed, fall, loader, run over, unstable position
End Use Proj Type Proj Cost Stories NonBldgHt Fatality
Commercial building New project or new addition $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 3 X
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation Construction
1 301883344 Fatality Other Construction laborers FallDist:
FallHt:
Cause: Installing culverts and incidental drainage
FatCause: Crushed/run-over by construction equipment during

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