OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14313290

EMBANKMENT,HEART,FRACTURE,HEMORRHAGE,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,STEEP GRADE,LOADER,INATTENTION,OVERTURN

1988-06-13T00:00:00

Event: EMBANKMENT,HEART,FRACTURE,HEMORRHAGE,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,STEEP GRADE,LOADER,INATTENTION,OVERTURN
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14313290
Report ID: 213100

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

#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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