OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14375026
BRAKE,EQUIPMENT FAILURE,STEEP GRADE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,UNMANNED,LOGGING,RUN OVER
Event description
Employee injured when run over by skidder
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a Caterpillar skidder to move logs on a steep grade. He ha d set the brake but the skidder began to roll backward. Employee #1 tried to cli mb up onto the side of the skidder to stop it but was struck by its front wheel, knocked under it, and run over. He sustained injuries that required hospitaliza tion.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 7
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.