Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14341663

RON BURTON

Event
AGRICULTURE, TRUCK CRANE, CAUGHT BY, FRUIT PACKING, RUN OVER, BACKING UP, INATTENTION, TIRE
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#106107253
Employer profile
RON BURTON
Summary number
14341663
Report ID
418800

Event description

Employee killed when run over by backing truck crane

Investigation abstract

On March 7, 1989, Employee #1, a harvester, was working in Blue Trace Grove pack ing fruit into a bag trailing between his legs. Suddenly he was pulled under the cleated 4 ft by 2 1/2 ft wide mud tire used on the truck-mounted articulating c rane, which was backing out of the grove area. Employer #1 died of multiple blun t trauma.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 28 Male

    Nature of injury
    Asphyxia (2)
    Part of body
    MULTIPLE (19)
    Accident type
    CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
    Source of injury
    MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
    Occupation
    Occupation not reported (999)
    Human factor
    MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
    Environmental factor
    PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
    Hazardous substance
    8880
    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.