OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14478754
STEEL PLATE,TRAFFIC ACCIDENT,STRUCK AGAINST,COLLISION,LACERATION,TRACTOR TRAILER,ARTERY,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed in truck collision with tractor trailer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sent to the 120 Mill steel yard to inspect a railroad car. When he was finished, he got into his truck to return to the shop, backed out from th e east side of 120 Mill, and made a left turn to go west. A tractor trailer load ed with steel plates was parked at the south end of 120 Mill, waiting to go into the mill to be unloaded. Employee #1 drove into the back of the trailer. The st eel plates extending past the end of the trailer cut through Employee #1's truck and lacerated his jugular vein. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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