OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14493993
BILL HODGES TRUCK CO., INC.
SUNRAY, TX·
Event description
Employee dies after being pinned between trucks
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a swamper, was walking behind a gin pole truck guiding the driver a s he backed up to help unload a compressor that was halfway off a tandem truck. Another swamper was on the bed of the tandem truck getting ready to do the hook up. When the truck was approximately 6 to 8 ft from the tandem, Employee #1 unho oked the #1 line from the pole truck. As the pole truck backed closer to the tan dem, Employee #1 was pinned between both trucks. He sustained a crushing thoraci c injury and died 54 days later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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