Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202422341 - Employee Crushed by Steel Drill Casing

Accident Summary Nr: 202422341 -- Report ID: 0950652 -- Event Date: 12/05/2012
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
316589654	12/06/2012	1629	237990	Drill Tech Drilling & Shoring Inc

Abstract: At approximately 3:00 p.m. on December 5, 2012, a serious accident occurred at jobsite where Employee #1 was engaged in drilling piles for a secant pile shoring system for an excavation. On the day of the accident, Employee #1 set a ladder up against a casing in order to attach the rigging from the forklift to the casing. The ground that day was muddy, and about half way up the ladder, the casing fell away from him. It hit the counterweight of the drill rig and ended up landing across his left leg and lower torso. Employee #1 suffered a crushed pelvis, a compound fracture of his left femur, a severed femoral artery, and a torn colon.

Keywords: SEVERED, LADDER, HEALTH CARE FACILITY, CRUSHED, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, LACERATION, PELVIS, ARTERY, LEG

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other heavy construction		New project or new addition		$1,000,000 to $5,000,000

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	316589654			Hospitalized injury	Other	Drillers, earth	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause: Struck by falling object/projectile

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