OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14206718
DAVID W CLARKE DBA
WEST OF DRAIN, OR·
Event description
EMPLOYEE RUN OVER BY BACKING INDUSTRIAL TRUCK
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 11:50 AM ON MAY 30, 1986, AN EMPLOYEE BACKED A MECHANIC'S VEHIC D TO THE SCENE. IT ARRIVED AT 11:04. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE SACRED H EART HOSPITAL IN EUGENE, OREGON. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DECLARED DEAD WHILE EN ROUTE TO THE HOSPITAL. LE (#155, ORG. LIC. #:T394942, PUC: #CAX559) DOWN AN OLD SPUR ROAD TO A WATER TA NKER TRUCK. HE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE INTENDED TO DO MAINTENANCE WORK ON THE WATER TRUCK. WHEN THEY HEARD A GURGLING SOUND, ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES BEGAN TO LOOK FOR THE SOURCE OF THE SOUND. HE FOUND EMPLOYEE #1 LYING UNDER THE MECHANIC'S VEHICL E. HE APPARENTLY HAD BEEN LYING JUST OFF THE EDGE OF THE SPUR ROAD, RESTING. HE WAS NEVER SEEN BY THE DRIVER OF THE MECHANIC;S VEHICLE AS IT WAS BEING BACKED DO WN THE ROAD. THE VEHICLE DRIVER, A FORMER EMT, CHECKED EMPLOYEE #1 FOR VITAL SIG NS AND FOUND NONE. THE EMPLOYEES RADIOED FOR HELP AND A HELICOPTER WAS DISPATCHE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 495
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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