OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388805
SWANDERS FARMERS ELEVATOR
SIDNEY, OH·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN DUMP TRUCK BED FELL ON HIM
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, A FEED MILL OPERATOR IN A COUNTRY GRAIN ELEVATOR, WAS DUMPING A LOA D OF SHELLED CORN INTO A RECEIVING PIT. HE HAD DUMPED ABOUT HALF THE LOAD WHEN H E HAD TO STOP BECAUSE THE PIT WAS FULL. HE THEN APPARENTLY TRIED TO LOWER THE BE D OF THE DUMP TRUCK USING THE LEVER IN THE CAB, BUT THE LEVER STUCK. HE THEN LEA NED IN BETWEEN THE BED OF THE TRUCK AND THE FRAME TO ATTEMPT TO FREE THE BED CON TROL LEVER. HE SUCCEEDED, CAUSING THE BED TO COME CRASHING DOWN AND CRUSHING HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE BED AND THE FRAME. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES, BUT ANOTHER EMPLOY EE STATED THAT THE MECHANISM HAD FUNCTIONED PROPERLY EARLIER IN THE DAY. SHERIFF DEPUTIES TRIED THE MECHANISM AFTER THE EVENT AND IT FUNCTIONED PROPERLY.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 699
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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