OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14415293
CHEST,ABDOMEN,SIGNALMAN,EARTHMOVING EQUIP,CRUSHED,BULLDOZER,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by bulldozer
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:45 a.m. on June 20, 1985, Employee #1, a truck spotter, was d ed backing up, moved over, and was starting to make another run forward when he noticed the truck spotter's cap on the ground. He stopped the bulldozer, jumped out, and found Employee #1 lying facedown toward the west. Employee #1 died of s evere crushing injuries to his chest and abdomen, sustained when he was run over by the bulldozer. At the time of the accident coworkers were operating other pi eces of equipment such as a road grader and sheepsfoot compactor. irecting dump truck drivers at a landfill operation at the Missouri Pacific rail road yards, Kansas City, MO. He was using a flashlight as a pointer to indicate where the drivers were to drop their loads of dirt. Employee #1 was standing on the right side of a Terex bulldozer, model D700A, serial #720939, that was sprea ding dirt forward to the east. When this operation was complete, the bulldozer d river started to back up and looked around for Employee #1. He did not see the t ruck spotter and thought that he had gone to his pickup truck to get a cigar bec ause the spotter always had a cigar in his mouth. The bulldozer operator complet
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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