Accident Report Detail
Accident: 201881240 - Employee Killed When Run Over By Backing Excavator
Accident: 201881240 -- Report ID: 0253630 -- Event Date: 10/31/2007 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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306915851 | 11/08/2007 | 1611 | Cattaraugus Co Highway Dept Fatality 2007 | ||||
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on October 31, 2007, Employee #1 was working as a seasonal laborer/flagger on a ditch clearing job in New Albion, NY. A coworker was operating a Link Belt 130LX excavator. He was reversing travel directions to rework a section of the ditch when the Employee #1 became caught under the excavator. He was run over and killed. Employee #1 was in the path of the excavator because, for unknown reasons, he had moved from a position on the opposite shoulder of the road. | |||||||
Keywords:
signalman, work rules, caught by, construction, earthmoving equip, flagman, excavator, run over, backing up, inattention
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End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
Highway, road, street | Maintenance or repair | Under $50,000 | X | ||||
Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
1 | 306915851 | Fatality | Other | Laborers, except construction | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Trenching, installing pipe FatCause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons |