OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14437743
KEN MILLER LOGGING INC.
OROFINO, ID·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by tractor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was making a skid trail for logging operations with his crawler trac tor, which was equipped with ROPS and a blade. For some reason, the employee vee red (not abruptly) into a very steep section of the hillside. He lost control of the tractor as it traveled downhill. The tractor apparently flipped once and la nded on a lower road. Employee #1 was tossed from the driver's seat and onto the tractor's left track. The tractor was now moving in reverse. The tractor backed up over Employee #1, crushing him to death. There were no eyewitnesses to the a ccident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 62 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- INSUF/LACK/PROTCV WRK CLTHG/EQUIP (20)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
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.