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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503015

OUTRIGGER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LOADER,DROWN,UNSTABLE POSITION,WATER

Event
OUTRIGGER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,LOADER,DROWN,UNSTABLE POSITION,WATER
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14503015
Report ID
729700

Event description

Employee drowns as rig slides into Missouri River

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was setting the outriggers on a knuckle boom loader mounted on a For d 880 flatbed truck. The rig was on a boat loading ramp adjacent to the Missouri River and was about to be used to load a boom section onto a work barge. When t he outriggers raised the rear tires of the rig off the ground, the rig slid into the river. Employee #1 jumped from the rig into the river and drowned.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 30 M

    Nature of injury
    2
    Part of body
    28
    Event type
    12
    Source
    41
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    10
    Environmental factor
    13
    Task assigned
    1

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