OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14215883
FRACTURE,CRUSHED,SKULL,STRUCK BY,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE WALKED BETWEEN CONVERGING TRASH CONTAINERS; CRUSHED
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE DELIVERING TWO TRASH CONTAINERS TO THE ORA NGEBURG DEPARTMENT OF PUPLIC UTILITIES, USING TWO 1979 CRANE CARRIER TRUCKS. THE CONTAINERS WERE 20 FEET LONG, 8 FEET WIDE AND 5 FEET, 10 INCHES HIGH. EMPLOYEE #1 DROPPED HIS CONTAINER ON THE TRACKS AND MOVED HIS TRUCK OUT OF THE WAY. THE P LAN WAS FOR THE OTHER EMPLOYEE TO DROP HIS CONTAINER AND PUSH IT BACK NEXT TO TH E CONTAINER ALREADY UNLOADED. AS THE OTHER EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING HIS CONTAINER IN TO POSITION, EMPLOYEE #1, FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, GOT OUT OF HIS TRUCK AND WALKED B ETWEEN THE TWO CONVERGING CONTAINERS. HE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO CONTAINERS A ND WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH (PRIMARY CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE).
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 875
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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