OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14305932
UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK,PAINTER,DUMP TRUCK BED
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BETWEEN DUMP TRUCK BED AND TRUCK FRAME
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 2 PM ON JUNE 17, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE PR REVENT THE DUMP BED FROM FALLING, WAS STILL LEANING AGAINST THE WALL. EMPLOYEE # 1, STILL ALIVE, WAS REMOVED AND RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL. HE DIED IN SURGERY. NO M ECHANICAL PROBLEMS WERE FOUND TO EXIST IN THE TRUCK DUMPING MECHANISM. EPARING TO PAINT A DUMP TRUCK BODY. THEY HAD MOVED THE TRUCK INTO THE PAINT SPRA Y BOOTH, AND HAD MASKED OFF THE CAB, SINCE THEY INTENDED TO PAINT ONLY THE SUBFR AME. WHEN THEY RAISED THE DUMP BED THEY NOTICED THAT IT DID NOT RAISE COMPLETELY BECAUSE OF AN ATTACHED ASPHALT HEATER. THE ATTACHED SNATCH CABLE WAS PULLED TIG HT SO AS TO LIMIT THE TRUCK BED RISE AND THUS PREVENT DAMAGE TO THE HYDRAULIC CY LINDER. AS THE SECOND EMPLOYEE WALKED AWAY FROM THE TRUCK TO GET HIS EQUIPMENT, HE HEARD EMPLOYEE #1 YELL "OH, OH", AND LOOKED BACK TO SEE EMPLOYEE #1 CAUGHT BE TWEEN THE DUMP BODY AND SUBFRAME. THE LARGE TIMBER, WHICH IS SOMETIMES USED TO P
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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