OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14497143
PETERSON FARMS, INC.
DECATUR, AR·
Event description
Employee killed when caught between truck cab and trailer
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 p.m., Employee #1, an interstate truck driver, arrived at er of the trailer that was parked in the next space. Employee #1 was able to get on his air horn and attract attention, but by the time he was freed, he had die d of asphyxia. Employee #1's chest was squeezed very tightly, but there were no other visible injuries. He weighed 350 lb. a trailer staging area. He dropped off an empty trailer and, after checking wit h the dispatcher, backed under a loaded 48 ft refrigerated trailer. The space be tween the adjoining trailer, normally 2 ft, was apparently tight, so Employee #1 dragged the refrigerated trailer forward 92 in., with the landing gear down. He then got out of his truck and started raising the landing gear under the traile r. Because he had not set the parking brake, Employee #1's rig began to roll bac kward. He attempted to get into his cab to apply the brake, but before he could swing his body inside, he became caught between his cab frame and the front corn
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- POSITION INAPROPRIATE FOR TASK (10)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.