OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1000058
PINE HALL BRICK & PIPE CO
MADISON, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND KILLED WHEN FREIGHT CAR DOOR FELL
Investigation abstract
An employee was killed when he attempted to use a cable attached to a forklift t o pull open a heavy railroad freight car door. The door pulled out of the "U" sh aped channel guide at top of the opening and the door fell, striking and killing the employee
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- TRAIN/RAILROAD EQUIP (38)
- Occupation
- Production helpers (873)
- Human factor
- EQUIP. INAPPROPR FOR OPERATION (6)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.