105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14465017

LOADING,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,TRACTOR,INATTENTION,OVERTURN

Event
LOADING,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,TRACTOR,INATTENTION,OVERTURN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14465017
Report ID
551800

Event description

EMPLOYEE CRUSHED TO DEATH BY OVERTURNING FARM TRACTOR

Investigation abstract

AT APPROXIMATELY 7:25 AM ON JANUARY 6, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WE RE LOADING A FORD MODEL 860 FARM TRACTOR ONTO A TAG TRAILER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS OPE RATING THE TRACTOR FROM A STANDING POSITION. HE RAN IT OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TRAILER. AS THE TRACTOR BEGAN TIPPING, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DUMPED OFF TO THE RIGHT SIDE. HE LANDED ON HIS BACK. THE TRACTOR CONTINUED OVERTURNING OFF THE TRAILER A ND LANDED, UPSIDE DOWN, ON EMPLOYEE #1. HE WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 37 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    5
    Event type
    2
    Source
    30
    Occupation code
    869
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.