KS Energy Services, LLC.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment - Crushing injuries - MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin
| Employer | KS Energy Services, LLC. |
| Address | 60th and Center St. |
| City, State ZIP | MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin 53201 |
| Report ID | 2015118483 |
| Event Date | November 10, 2015 |
| Outcome | Hospitalized |
| Nature of Injury | Crushing injuries |
| Body Part | Ankle(s) |
| Event Type | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| Source of Injury | Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c. |
| Secondary Source | Backhoes, trackhoes |
| Industry (NAICS) | 221210 |
| GPS Coordinates | 43.03000, -87.92000 |
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Incident Narrative
Workers were breaking up concrete to install gas lines and were placing the concrete chunks on a flatbed truck. The injured employee was operating a backhoe. The flatbed operator tilted the bed of the flatbed truck slightly to make it easy to move concrete into the bucket of the backhoe. The injured employee then climbed up onto the tilted flatbed and began moving the smaller pieces of concrete into the bucket of the backhoe by hand when a large piece of concrete slid and pinned his ankle between the bucket of the backhoe and that large piece of concrete. His ankle was crushed.
Incident Summary
On November 10, 2015, a worker at KS Energy Services, LLC. in MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin suffered crushing injuries to the ankle(s). The incident was classified as compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment, with scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c. identified as the source of injury. The worker was hospitalized.
Context
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