OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14327282
HOMEWOOD CEMETERY
PITTSBURGH, PA·
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 Female
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MACHINE (26)
- Occupation
- Construction trades, n.e.c. (599)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.