OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327282
WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,STARTED IN GEAR,CRUSHED,RUN OVER,BACKHOE
Event description
Backhoe operator killed when run over by backhoe wheel
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a backhoe operator, parked her vehicle in gear and shut off its eng ine. She then dismounted the backhoe to assist laborers who were loading its fro nt end bucket. She went back to the backhoe to start the engines and tilt, not r aise, the bucket to a vertical position. Apparently Employee #1 forgot that the backhoe's neutral start engine had been bypassed for years. When she stood on th e ground between the wheels on the passenger side and reached across the dash to turn the key, she was run over by the rear wheel. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 F
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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