OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14304851
CHEST,FRACTURE,ABDOMEN,SIGNALMAN,HEMORRHAGE,CONSTRUCTION,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,DUMP TRUCK,RIB
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between trucks
Investigation abstract
At 10:24 a.m. on June 29, 1989, Employee #1, an equipment operator with almost 2 preventable; it was caused primarily by carelessness and poor judgment on the p art of Employee #1 and the operator of the distributor truck. Employee #1 was im properly positioned as signalman and did not stop the distributor truck before s tepping between it and the dump truck. The distributor truck driver failed to st op immediately after losing sight of Employee #1. 9 years of service, was part of a six-man crew performing the routine job of rep airing/patching asphalt on the south safety area of the west end of Runway 11-29 at the King Salmon Airport in King Salmon, AK. Employee #1 was performing dutie s as a signalman and was crushed between the backing International Harvester asp halt distributor truck that he was signaling and a Stafford dump truck. Employee #1 sustained crushing injuries to the chest and abdomen, resulting in multiple rib fractures, pelvic fractures, a lacerated mesentery and liver, and an interna l hemorrhage. Employee #1 died of these injuries at 12:39 p.m. This accident was
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 594
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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