OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14346944
MIDSTATE MACHINE & FABRICATION CORP.
EATON, FL·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY STRADDLE CARRIER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, THE SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY, WAS CRUSHED WHEN H PERATOR TO STOP. EMPLOYEE #1 DIED WITHIN AN HOUR OF THE ACCIDENT. E WAS STRUCK BY THE WHEEL OF A STRADDLE CARRIER. AT THE TIME, THE VISION OF THE OPERATOR OF THE STRADDLE CARRIER WAS OBSTRUCTED BY THE LOAD HE WAS HANDLING. IT APPEARS THAT EMPLOYEE #1 HAD ENTERED THE "DANGER AREA" TO PERSONALLY OBSERVE THE LOADING OF CONCRETE SLABS ONTO A FLATBED TRUCK. NEITHER THE STRADDLE CARRIER OP ERATOR NOR THE TWO HOOK-UP EMPLOYEES WERE AWARE OF EMPLOYEE #1'S PRESENCE. AFTER A LOAD OF SLAB WAS UNLOADED ONTO THE TRUCK BED, THE STRADDLE CARRIER BEGAN TO M OVE. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STANDING NEXT TO ONE OF THE WHEELS. HIS LEG WAS RUN OVER AN D CRUSHED BEFORE A HOOK-UP EMPLOYEE HEARD HIS SCREAMS AND SIGNALED THE CARRIER O
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 62 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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