OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14428643
WESTFALL CONSTRUCTION CLEANUP
ELLICUTT, CO·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by falling truck bed
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a flatbed truck driver, was dumping debris at a landfill. The truck bed was partially raised when it stopped for some reason. Employee #1 apparentl y noticed a severed steel control cable leading to the power take-off. He had po sitioned himself between the raised bed and the truck frame to repair the cable when the bed lowered, crushing and killing him. Employee #1 may have moved the h ydraulic linkage lever while under the raised bed. There were no witnesses to th e accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Truck drivers, light (805)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.