Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201066792 - Employee Is Killed When Crushed by Backhoe Boom

Accident Summary Nr: 201066792 -- Report ID: 0950632 -- Event Date: 10/15/2003
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301118667	10/15/2003	1794	238910	Siemers Engineering

Abstract: A approximately 11:30 a.m. on October 15, 2003, Employee #1 was a non-contract employee of Siemers Engineering. He and another Siemers employee were installing underground water utilities at a new shopping center in San Marcos, CA. Employee #1 was operating a Caterpillar 416C backhoe to dig shallow trenches for pipe. He was qualified as an equipment operator, but he was operating the backhoe controls from outside the vehicle. He was found by his foreman with his hands on the control pedals, trapped between the hydraulic boom and an outrigger. His chest was crushed, and he had been killed. There were no eyewitnesses, and it is not known why he was operating the backhoe in this manner.

Keywords: BACKHOE BOOM, CHEST, OUTRIGGER, WORK RULES, CONTROL LEVER, TRENCH, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, PIPELINE, BACKHOE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition		$50,000 to $250,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	301118667			Fatality	Asphyxia	Excavating and loading machine operators	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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