OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14491500
C & A CARBONE CORPORATION
FORT LEE, NJ·
Event description
TRASH EMPLOYEE STRUCK AND KILLED BY GARBAGE CONTAINER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, WORKING ALONE, WAS EMPTYING GARBAGE FROM A 10 YARD OPEN CONTAINER I NTO THE REAR OF A 25 YARD REAR-LOADING SANITATION TRUCK. THE 10 YARD OPEN CONTAI NER WAS LIFTED BY A WINCH MOUNTED ON THE TOP REAR OF THE SANITATION TRUCK CONNEC TED TO A HOOK PLACED ON THE REAR OF THE OPEN CONTAINER. WHILE THE CONTAINER WAS BEING RAISED, THE CONTAINER PIVOTED AND SWUNG TO THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE TRUCK , CRUSHING EMPLOYEE #1 TO DEATH.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 24
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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