A backhoe operator died when his backhoe pinned him against a retaining wall.

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• Personal Author:
  Cierpich, Hank ; Harrison, Robert ; Styles, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A 38-year-old Hispanic equipment operator died when he was pinned against a retaining wall by the front bucket of his backhoe after he got off it to unload the front bucket with a shovel. The victim had set the backhoe brake, but the brake failed to hold the backhoe in place. The backhoe was on an incline, and the wheels were not chocked to hold the backhoe in place. The victim had a load of rock and gravel in the backhoe bucket that he had elevated before he got off the backhoe. The CA/FACE investigator determined that in order to prevent future occurrences, employers, as part of their Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP), should: 1. Ensure employees lower the loader and backhoe buckets to the ground when parking a backhoe unattended on an incline. 2. Ensure employees block and/or chock the backhoe wheels when parked unattended on an incline. 3. Ensure employees are trained on equipment operation and safety, and their achievement of skills is verified through a testing program.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Machine (All) ; Machine - General ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE05CA001
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029324
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-106732
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 05CA001, 2005 Dec ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:eaa49eb3e1cbcebfff8d4e4693917d9d59e48d7ceb88b92a76485e151e977b4f63447382ca1d00e56b1591c869cdbcdd875de2e58e8b68261f6757eb5b7a5891
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166382/cdc_166382_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 134.32 KB ]