OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14481519
WHEELING PITTSBURG STEEL CORP.
FOLLANSBEE, WV·
Event description
Employee killed by slip from front of moving railroad car
Investigation abstract
At 2:50 a.m. on December 15, 1985, Employee #1, a railroad brakeman, was working a crushed rib cage. Employee #1 was killed. The weather that night was snowy an d cold, with temperatures in the teens. Employee #1 had been employed by Wheelin g Pittsburgh Steel Company for 7 years. with a conductor and an engineer to move a string of 13 railroad cars to Yard B , Track 6. Employee #1 was riding on the front of the lead railroad car when the engineer heard two clicks on his engine radio. The engineer asked the conductor if he had heard anything, and the conductor said no. The engineer stopped the t rain and both men went to the front car to check on the Employee #1. He had slip ped or fallen off the lead car and had been run over. The coworkers found the br akeman under the second hopper car, having suffered an amputated right leg below the knee, a decerebrate fracture of the right side of his face and cranium, and
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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