OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14397012
S. A. HEALY COMPANY
DEL VALLE, TX·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN HE DROVE LOCOMOTIVE INTO OVERHEAD PIPE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS HIRED AS AN INEXPERIENCED TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION LABORER ON FEBRUAR ENT. Y 25, 1987. HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN ASSIGNED THE JOB OF ACTING ASSISTANT FOREMAN. A T ABOUT MIDNIGHT ON NOVEMBER 14, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DRIVING A LOCOMOTIVE, WIT H A TWO MAN CLEANUP CREW ABOARD, THROUGH A TUNNEL. THE TUNNEL WAS LIGHTED, BUT T HE LOCOMOTIVE HAD NO LIGHTS AND A RECENTLY INSTALLED "SLICK LINE" (A 7 INCH OUTS IDE DIAMETER CONCRETE PIPE), WHICH PROJECTED ABOUT 41 INCHES INTO THE 10 FOOT DI AMETER TUNNEL, WAS NOT ILLUMINATED. AS THE TRAIN PASSED BENEATH THE "SLICK LINE" EMPLOYEE #1'S HEAD HIT THE LINE. HE WAS KILLED. THE EMPLOYEE HAD NOT BEEN INSTR UCTED TO DRIVE THE LOCOMOTIVE, EITHER BY HIS FOREMAN OR THE CONCRETE SUPERINTEND
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Hazardous substance
- 8390
- Task assigned
- 2
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