OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14301360
B. J. TITAN SERVICES
HOBBS, NM·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between vehicles
Investigation abstract
On July 16, 1987, Employee #1 was preparing his frac truck for a fracturing oper ation on an oil well. He had pulled into the well site area and was standing beh ind his rig. A coworker was backing his own frac truck into position when Employ ee #1 became caught between both vehicles. He was killed. The backing truck did not have a back-up alarm and was being backed up without the help of a spotter.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.