OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1005222
PRT GANG CONNER ST YARD BUR HWY OP NYCDOT
BRONX, NY·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators (594)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- 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.