OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14387930
INDEPENDENT CORPORATION
ELYRIA, OH·
Event description
Employee dies after being run over by his truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the driver of a truck for delivering petroleum products, was at a t erminal picking up goods when he had trouble starting the truck. He got out and, waving a length of wire to a coworker across the yard, went to hot-wire the tru ck. Employee #1 placed himself between the dual tires behind the cab and the tru ck's box. He had left the gear shift in reverse, however, and when he managed to short across a switch or solenoid, the truck started up and backed over him, ca using fractures and internal injuries. Ten weeks later, while Employee #1 was re covering, he went back to the hospital for treatment of a colostomy. He died soo n after.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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