Crushing injuries

Name: Crushing injuries at R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION
Start: 7/10/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017076328 · 7/10/2017 · R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Foot (feet) and ankle(s)
Nature of injury: Crushing injuries

Cause

Event: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
Source: Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders

Employer

Name: R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION
Location: Mt. Vernon Street., WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01605
NAICS: 237110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was guiding a trailer-mounted compressor that was suspended by the bucket of a loader. He had positioned the suspended compressor's trailer hitch so that it could be lowered onto a tow vehicle's pintle hitch when his left foot/ankle was struck and ran over by the loader's left front wheel. He was hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown