Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14224356

GARRETT BROS.

Event
HEART ATTACK, TRUCK, FALL
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#18742031
Employer profile
GARRETT BROS.
Summary number
14224356
Report ID
355117

Event description

Employee fell from truck cab roof and died

Investigation abstract

An employee was loading a two-and-one-half-ton flat-bed truck with pulpwood logs . Apparently he climbed up on the cab of the truck to move some logs to the lowe r side of the bed when he fell to the ground approximately 82 in. and died. The medical examiner indicated that the employee suffered a heart attack.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 49 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    31
    Event type
    12
    Source
    43
    Occupation code
    496
    Human factor
    14
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

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