OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221521602

JOY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION

BRONX, NY— 2022-12-15T00:00:00

Event: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Bucket, Dropped, Excavator, Head, Lifting, Piling, Pump, Struck By
NAICS: 236116
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346393945
Employer profile: JOY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION
Summary number: 221521602
Report ID: 0216000
Project type: A
Construction end-use: B

Event description

One employee is killed, one is injured by excavator bucket

Investigation abstract

At 11:00 a.m. on December 15, 2022, two employees were working with the operator of a Liugong CLG936E excavator to raise and lower a submersible pump from cylindrical pilings. The employees were standing under the excavator bucket that was elevated approximately 6 feet from the ground attaching the pump's hose to the bucket when the operator exited the running excavator. The unoccupied excavator's bucket dropped down and struck the employees. One employee was struck in the head by the bucket and was killed. The other employee was hospitalized to treat an amputation.

Victims (2)

#1 Hospitalized Age 22 M

Event type
14

Occupation code
7010
#2 Fatality Age 56 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7010

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