OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14293476
TALENT IRRIGATION DISTRICT
ASHLAND, OR·
Event description
ROAD GRADER PLOWING SNOW ROLLED OVER, KILLING DRIVER
Investigation abstract
ON DECEMBER 31, 1986, A WORKER EMPLOYED BY AN IRRIGATION DISTRICT DID NOT RETURN HOME FROM HIS TASK OF PLOWING SNOW. THE WORKER'S WIFE AND SOME NEIGHBORS WENT T O SEARCH FOR HIM AND FOUND THE GRADER HE HAD BEEN OPERATING 60-75 FEET DOWN A ST EEP EMBANKMENT. THE GRADER, AN AUSTIN-WESTERN SUPER 300, HAD ROLLED DOWN THE BAN K. THE CAB WAS CRUSHED, AS THE ROLL-OVER PROTECTIVE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN REMOVED. THE EMPLOYEE DIED OF A CRUSHED SKULL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 855
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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