OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691048
CANYON VIEW CONCRETE
SANDY, UT—
Event description
Employee's leg broken when pinned by dirt
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was stripping concrete forms from the inside of the garage of a hous e that was under construction. As he was removing the form hardware, a coworker removed a 2 by 4 brace that extended 8 ft from the form to a dirt pile in the ce nter of the garage. When the brace was removed, a large piece of dirt that had b een 8 ft from the form rolled down the bank, pinning Employee #1's leg against t he form and breaking it.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 588
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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