Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs

Name: Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs at American West Construction, LLC
Start: 1/14/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021010384 · 1/14/2021 · American West Construction, LLC

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Head and trunk
Nature of injury: Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs

Cause

Event: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
Source: Tractor, unspecified

Employer

Name: American West Construction, LLC
Location: 16650 Cottonwood Drive, PARKER, COLORADO, 80134
NAICS: 237310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was demonstrating the procedure for attaching a disk tiller to a tractor. The tractor backed up suddenly and pinned the employee against the disk tiller. The employee suffered a skull fracture with brain swelling, a collapsed lung, and broken ribs.

Source

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