OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14348700
PLATFORM,WORK RULES,RAILROAD CAR,FALL,RUN OVER,CRANE,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Switchman killed when run over by rail car
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a switchman, was riding on a narrow platform attached to a locomoti ve crane. The crane was pulling a rail car and the platform was positioned betwe en the crane locomotive and the trailing rail car. Employee #1 fell from the pla tform and was run over by the rail car wheels. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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