OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14264394
GLENDALE IRON & METAL
GLENDALE, AZ·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by roll-off truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was trying to unload an open top roll-off container from the rail of ng Employee #1 to be crushed between the front rear tire of the truck and the pa rked container and killed. a roll-off unit on a semi-truck. Employee #1 was working alone in the roll-off container storage area using a 1967 white Freightliner tractor trailer semi-truc k, model #566590, serial #CA213H6030228, which had been converted to a roll-off truck that transports roll-off containers. Employee #1 was operating the control s to the roll-off unit from outside the truck between a parked roll-off containe r, in which he had approximately 20 in. of work space. As the roll-off container was unloading, the cable holding the load came out of the winch. The container came off the roll-off rail with such force that the truck lurched forward, causi
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 859
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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