OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1005222
GARBAGE TRUCK,REPAIR,TRAFFIC ACCIDENT,PINNED,CONSTRUCTION,TRUCK,SLIPPERY SURFACE,STRUCK BY,TRAILER,LOST CONTROL
Event description
Employee killed when struck by runaway sanitation truck
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on June 9, 1989, Employee #1 was finishing a pot hole uck. repair job in the right hand lane at the bottom of a slight incline. The road s urface was slick due to rain. The repair job had been completed and Employee #1 was placing his shovel in the rear of the Power-Ray, an 8 ft trailer filled with asphalt, when he was struck by an out-of-control sanitation truck. The sanitati on truck was braking for a traffic light when it skidded and hit Employee #1, pi nning him between the truck and the Power-Ray. He was taken to the hospital, whe re he died of complications at 11:30 p.m. Two employees and one foreman were on the job with Employee #1, but were able to get out of the way of the skidding tr
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 594
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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