OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14473490
LOADING,BRAKE,DOCK,TRUCK,TRACTOR,TRACTOR--TRUCK
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN PINNED BETWEEN TRAILER AND DOCK
Investigation abstract
At 9:50 p.m. on September 25, 1989, Employee #1 was killed when the semi tractor trailer he was operating pinned him between a dock and the trailer. For some un known reason Employee #1 stopped his tractor trailer on the sloped part of a doc k. After stopping the vehicle Employee #1 raised the loading dock door about 3 f eet and asked another employee a question. The other employee answered Employee #1 and before the other employee could warn Employee #1 about the rolling traile r it had pinned Employee #1 between the dock and the trailer. The trailer was fi eld tested and found to have a defective parking brake which released air and al lowed the trailer to roll.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 19
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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