OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14440564
ROLL-OVER,ROPS,SLIP,STEEP GRADE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Event description
LOG SKIDDER DRIVER KILLED WHEN SKIDDER ROLLED OVER
Investigation abstract
ON DECEMBER 28, 1986, AT APPROXIMATELY 10 AM, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPERATING A RUBBER TIRED SKIDDER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS ON HIS SECOND TRIP AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. AS HE WAS TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE MACHINE, THE REAR WHEELS BECAME SITUATED ON THE UPHILL SIDE OF THE SKID TRAIL WHILE THE FRONT WHEELS WERE ON THE TRAIL. T HE MACHINE WAS AT, OR NEAR, FULL ARTICULATION WHEN THE REAR WHEELS SLIPPED OFF O F THE UPHILL SLOPE, CAUSING THE MACHINE TO ROLL OVER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS THROWN OFF THE SKIDDER AND STRUCK BY IT AS IT ROLLED OVER HIM. HE SUFFERED NUMEROUS SEVERE INTERNAL INJURIES WHICH WERE FATAL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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