OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14202899
BACK-UP ALARM,BOOM TRUCK,OBSTRUCTED REAR VIEW,ELEC UTILITY WORK,FLATBED TRUCK,MOTOR VEHICLE
Event description
FLATBED TRUCK PINNED EMPLOYEE AGAINST A BOOM TRUCK
Investigation abstract
A supervisor for an electric utility was facing a boom truck on a jobsite. The d river of a flatbed truck, who had no one directing him, backed his truck into th e rear of the boom truck, crushing the supervisor between the two vehicles. The supervisor died of massive thoracic internal hemorrhaging.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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