OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14187645
UNCONSCIOUSNESS,SUFFOCATED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,UNSTABLE SOIL
Event description
Employee suffocates and dies when soil pile collapses
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a Caterpillar truck loader to move a pile of topsoil. He g ot off the loader and stood between it and the pile to relieve himself. Part of the pile fell, knocking him unconscious. He suffocated and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 12
- Occupation code
- 594
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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