OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14567598
JANICULA PAVING CO
CHARLESTON, SC—
Event description
Employee breaks leg when run over by front end loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 normally operated a front end loader for the Janicula Paving Company oader while it was moving, he slipped and fell. The loader ran over him, breakin g his leg. Most witnesses believed that Employee #1 had been drinking. , but on the day of the accident he had been assigned another task by the superi ntendent. Employee #1 finished that task early and returned to the job site, a c ar dealership, where he had been working the previous day. A coworker was moving dirt in preparation for paving the parking lot, using the front end loader that Employee #1 normally operated. Employee #1 demanded that the coworker get off t he loader and let him operate it. The coworker refused, stating that the superin tendent had told him to operate it. Employee #1 then switched off the machine, a nd the coworker started it again. When Employee #1 attempted to climb into the l
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 855
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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