OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14301568
HEAD,TAILGATE,WORK RULES,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,FALL,PICKUP TRUCK,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from pickup truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was riding on the tailgate of a pickup truck that was transporting c ompressed gas cylinders across a construction work site. He apparently slipped o ff and fell onto the pavement of the parking lot, sustaining fatal head injuries .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 5
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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