OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14293963
COOS HEAD LUMBER & PLYWOOD COMPANY INC
REEDSPORT, OR·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed under loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was clearing manure from a barn with a Clark Bobcat front end loader om a nearby store. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office responded and pronounced Employee #1 dead at the scene. . Apparently, the loader's ROPS had been removed more than eight years ago so it could access barns with low overhead clearances. Evidence indicates that Employ ee #1 had cleaned the barn and backed out the east door onto a dirt access road adjacent to the barn. The dirt road is inclined and the Bobcat was in a side hil l position when it approached the cut bank of the road. The loader's tire tracks indicate that the right side of the loader rose at an angle on the cut bank, th en the loader slid sideways slightly and rolled on its top. Employee #1 was crus hed underneath. A passerby saw the overturned loader and notified authorities fr
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 53 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- OTHER (14)
- Source of injury
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQ. (27)
- Occupation
- Managers, farms, except horticultural (475)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.