OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1001999
MANATT'S INC.
ALTOONA, IA·
Event description
One killed, one injured when struck by flying object
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 and #2 were driving a pick-up truck as an escort for a lowboy trans porting a backhoe along an interstate highway. The lowboy driver contacted the e scort by CB radio and told the two employees that he thought either a chain had come loose or the backhoe had hit the bottom of the last overpass. Instead of st opping and checking the load, the escort assumed a position two or three car len gths behind the lowboy. Employee # 1 was struck in the head by a flying object a nd was killed. Employee #2 was struck in the neck and hospitalized.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 843
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 805
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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