OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14496103
WORK RULES,CRUSHED,DUMP TRUCK,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:45 a.m. on April 23, 1984, Employee #1 was at a concrete batc h plant, standing at the rear of his ready-mix truck preparing to load it from t he west bin. A Ford dump truck was backing under an adjacent bin to get a load o f sand when Employee #1 stepped or fell into its path. He was struck by the righ t rear of the dump truck and run over by all the wheels on its right side. Emplo yee #1 was crushed and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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