OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14394159
GLENWOOD COOPERATIVE, INC.
NAPOLEONVILLE, LA·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on November 20, 1987, Employee #1 was walking down a roadway at the Glenwood Cooperative Sugar Mill in Napoleonville, LA, leaving th e mill at the end of his shift. The driver of a fully loaded Ford 8000 diesel du mp truck was at the controls to an overhead hopper, filling the truck with raw s ugar, when Employee #1 walked behind the vehicle and continued down the roadway with his back to the truck. The driver finished the filling operation, got in th e truck, and began to back down the roadway. Approximately 86 ft down the roadwa y the truck struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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