OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14499925
HUFFY SPORTING GOODS COMPANY
WAUKESHA, WI·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED BY FALL FROM TRUCK RECEIVING DOCK
Investigation abstract
On March 16, 1989, Employee #1, a warehouse person, had unloaded a semi-trailer ining a skull fracture. Employee #1 died of his injuries on April 25, 1989. truck at the receiving dock. He went to the maintenance department to contact an other employee regarding a possible problem with the dock seal. In the interim, the tractor truck driver arrived and hooked up to the empty semi-trailer truck a nd pulled it up 10 feet. To close the trailer doors, Employee #1 and a coworker returned to the dock area and opened the overhead door. Employee #1 placed one f oot on the trailer & one foot on the dock. The semi-trailer then pulled away fro m the dock, leaving Employee #1 straddling the truck and dock. He lost his balan ce and fell to concrete ramp 47 inches below. Employee #1 struck his head, susta
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- BUILDINGS/STRUCTURES (8)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- 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.