OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14412993
FRONT END LOADER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing front end loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working on a construction site. He parked his piece of equipment and walked out onto the pad where a grader and front end loader were putting th e final grade on the pad. The employee then squatted down to clean a blue top. T he loader operator did not see him and backed up to turn around and ran over the employee, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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