OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14325369
CHARTIERS PAVING COMPAY, INC.
CORAOPOLIS, PA·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between two trucks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a truck driver, had parked his dump truck facing downhill, 53 in. f rom another dump truck, with their tailgates facing one another. At the end of t he work day the driver of the uphill truck jumped into his cab and attempted to start his truck. He let the truck drift backward as Employee #1 was walking betw een the trucks' tailgates; it collided with the other truck and crushed Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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