OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14375174
ASPHYXIATED,BRAKE,OVERLOADED,ABRASION,RAILROAD,CONTUSION
Event description
ONE FATALITY AND THREE INJURIES - RAILROAD TRAINS COLLIDED
Investigation abstract
Railroad engine number 1258 was called to help pull another train up a grade and the collision were injured. over a switch. When engine number 1258 went to help, it was hooked to five hopp er cars loaded with dolomite. All the cars were overloaded. The brakes on engine number 1258 had been turned in to the shop as defective on the daylight shift, but there was no repairs made and the engine was not taken out of service on the evening shift. When the engine descended the grade to pull the other train over the switch, it could not stop and collided with the lead car. Employee #1 would not jump and was crushed between the hopper car of the other train and engine n umber 1258. The engineer in the cab and two other employees that jumped prior to
Victims (4)
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Non-hospitalized injury Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
-
#3 Non-hospitalized injury Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Non-hospitalized injury Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 4
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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