OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14301592
BACK-UP ALARM,SCRAPER,CRUSHED,RUN OVER
Event description
EMPLOYEE RAN OVER BY SCRAPER
Investigation abstract
On September 8, 1989, Employee #1 was engaged in supervising the removal of a so hear 29-6 coming and was knocked down by the left rear wheel that then passed ov er him. Employee #1 died of his injuries on September 20, 1989. The back-up alar m on 29-6 was not operating and a spotter had not been arranged for. ft spot in the shoulder of state highway 44. The soft spot was the width of the shoulder, approximately twenty feet long, and of unknown depth. A Caterpillar 62 3-B scraper-loader, Serial Number 70V16990, Company Number 29-6, had just made a pass through the cut area and pulled away. Employee #1 stepped into the cut are a, apparently to see if the soft spot had bottomed out. He then turned his back on the scraper-loader 29-6 to signal scraper-loader 29-5 to make a pass. The ope rator of 29-6 looked into his load pan and noticed that he had not gotten a load . The operator stopped 29-6 and backed up for another pass. Employee #1 did not
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 843
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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