OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14313290
ROBERT FREGOSI & SON INC.
BREWSTER, NY·
Event description
Employee killed by loader overturn
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the owner, was operating an Oliver OC-46 loader (small, older unit) . While backing up, he apparently failed to realize that he was arriving very cl ose to the edge of an embankment. The loader rolled down the 45 degree embankmen t and overturned. Employee #1 suffered a fractured back near the eleventh and tw elfth vertebrae, an amputated leg, and a ruptured aorta, which caused massive in ternal hemorrhaging of which Employee #1 died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 55 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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