OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388094
DUMPSTER,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,HOPPER,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by falling hopper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker were inside a dumpster looking for a machine part tha s holding on to the hopper. Forklift training was provided. The employer did not know that employees were outside in the dumpster. t they thought had fallen into a scrap basket and been dumped into a hopper that was now in the dumpster. Another coworker came out and watched. The machine ope rator then came outside and called for the Employee #1 and the coworker to get o ut of the dumpster and stop looking for the part. The coworker left but Employee #1 did not. Employee #1 instructed the other coworker to move the forklift with the hopper on the forks. Employee #1 remained in the dumpster as the coworker l ifted the hopper. Employee #1 stretched up his arms to hold onto the hopper, whi ch then fell on him and killed him. The coworker was unaware that Employee #1 wa
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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