OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1001171

SECONDARY ROAD DEPARTMENT - CLAY COUNTY

SPENCER, IA· 1986-12-04T00:00:00

Event: AMPUTATED, FRONT END LOADER, WORK RULES, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, CONSTRUCTION, ENGINE, STRUCK BY, TRAIN, INATTENTION, LEG
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #101934180
Employer profile: SECONDARY ROAD DEPARTMENT - CLAY COUNTY
Summary number: 1001171
Report ID: 751910

Event description

Employee's leg amputated when struck by train

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was driving a Caterpillar front end loader south on a paved surface near C. F. Industries, three miles west of Spencer. As he crossed the railroad t racks, he apparently did not see the first of two engines on a ten-car train. Th e lead engine, equipped with a snowplow, struck the side of the front end loader , amputating Employee #1's left leg just below the knee. According to the Sherif f's office, witnesses reported that the train's engineer had blown the horn to w arn Employee #1 of its approach.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 56 M

Nature of injury
1

Part of body
18

Event type
1

Source
29

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
1

Task assigned
1

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