OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14237739
RAILROAD CAR,BRAKEMAN,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between rail car and log rake
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was a brakeman for a company railroad. Normally five or six cars wou it out" response from the brakeman. He observed other employees running across the yard, so he locked the brakes and also ran to see. Employee #1 had been caug ht sideways in the 9 1/2 in. space between the parked log rake and rail car. He was killed. ld be spotted on the side of a log rake, a four-legged platform that straddled a flume containing water. A hydraulic backhoe-type machine sat on top of this pla tform and pulled pulp logs off into the flume. This log rake, when not in use, w as normally parked at the north end of the flume. While attempting to uncouple r ail cars, Employee #1 apparently was closer to the parked log rake than he thoug ht. The cars had stopped, but he couldn't pull the pin, so he radioed the engine er to "bump it," meaning push the cars slightly to allow some slack to pull the pin. The engineer bumped the eleven car string, but did not get the normal "pull
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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