Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 125438.015 - Employee is crushed between grader machine and trailer hitch

Accident Summary Nr: 125438.015 -- Report ID: 0418600 -- Event Date: 04/16/2020
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1472620.015	04/17/2020		237310	Ammons & Blackmon Construction, Llc

Abstract: At 2:30 p.m. on April 16, 2020, Employee #1, employed by a construction company, was working at a multiemployer road construction project. He unfastened chains from a grader machine in preparation for unloading the grader from a trailer. The grader began to roll backward on the trailer toward the trailer's hydraulic receiver hitch. Employee #1 was caught between the grader and the trailer hitch. He sustained crushing injuries and was killed.

Keywords: Caught Between, Construction, Construction vehicle, Crushed, Crushing, Road, Road Grader, Trailer

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Other			0	0	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1472620.015	48	M	Fatality		Machine operators, not specified	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Excavation Fatality Cause:

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