OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14209480
HEAD,AGRICULTURE,SLIP,HARVESTER,FALL,NECK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,TIRE
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND RUN OVER BY POTATO HARVESTER
Investigation abstract
ON OCTOBER 27, 1984, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:50 AM, EMPLOYEE #1 SUFFERED FATAL INJUR CTOR AND HARVESTER. THE RIGHT TIRE OF THE HARVESTER WAS ABOUT 42 INCHES FROM THE FENCE. APPARENTLY, EMPLOYEE #1 DID NOT WANT TO USE THE LADDER MOUNT LOCATED ON THE "FENCE SIDE" OF THE HARVESTER. INSTEAD, EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT EMPLOYEE #1 ATTEMPTED TO MOUNT THE HARVESTER FROM BEHIND. HE TRIED TO STEP ONTO THE AXLE BET WEEN THE FRAME AND THE RIGHT TIRE WHILE THE MACHINE WAS MOVING. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS RUN OVER AFTER HE APPARENTLY FELL FROM THE AXLE TO THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE TI RE. HE DIED INSTANTLY FROM THE HEAD AND NECK INJURIES THAT HE RECEIVED. THERE WE RE NO WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT. IES WHEN HE WAS RUN OVER BY A LOCKWOOD MARK VI POTATO HARVESTER. THE HARVESTER W AS BEING PULLED BY A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR ON AMICK & SONS RANCH POTATO FIELD, WHIC H IS APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE NORTHWEST OF HARPER, OREGON. EMPLOYEE #1 WORKED AS A CLODPICKER ON THE HARVESTER. HE REMOVED DIRT CLODS FROM A CONVEYOR BELT WHICH L OADED POTATOES ONTO A TRUCK. WHEN THE HARVESTER STOPPED AT THE END OF THE FIELD, EMPLOYEE #1 DISMOUNTED THE MACHINE TO URINATE BEHIND THE TRUCK. WHILE HE URINAT ED, THE TRACTOR AND HARVESTER PROCEEDED ACROSS THE END OF THE FIELD, MOVING ABOU T 2 TO 4 MILES PER HOUR. A BARBED WIRE FENCE RAN PARALLEL TO THE PATH OF THE TRA
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 12 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 479
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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