Highway Worker Crushed by Swinging Backhoe Boom

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  On July 1, 2007, a 47-year-old road construction worker was killed while working on the ground alongside a backhoe. The worker was a journeyman equipment operator working together with an apprentice, who operated the backhoe. The two road workers were preparing to pull pins from concrete barricades along the roadside, so they could be moved. The journeyman had been on the job with this company only 2 days, and the two workers had never worked together before. The journeyman retrieved two heavy steel pin pullers and a chain from the front loader bucket and walked to the rear of the backhoe, where he tossed one of the pin pullers into the cab. The pin puller fell on a foot pedal that controlled the backhoe boom swing, and the boom instantly swung sideways and crushed the journeyman operator against the raised rear stabilizer. The apprentice operator heard the journeyman yell and swiveled to the rear, where he saw the heavy pin on top of the foot-pedal control. He swung the boom back to its neutral position to free the journeyman and called for emergency help. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Construction Construction-equipment Construction-workers Equipment-operators Highway Work Zone Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operators Mobile Machinery Safety-education Traumatic-injuries Work-operations

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• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039365
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation, 2009 Jan; :1-5
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) Program, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park, L606, Portland, OR 97239-3098
• Email:
  orface@ohsu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Highway Worker Crushed by Swinging Backhoe Boom
• End Date:
  20060831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b089e38c8202e3c5dcf6f01961247ee02179018526303807ec79570f05cd4f9dd1ac11af993cdbeae14b16dbeb8f8a5d7cf91db150425ae517f509bf2aab43d4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228647/cdc_228647_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 149.48 KB ]