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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14511745

FRONT END LOADER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION

Event
FRONT END LOADER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14511745
Report ID
625400

Event description

Employee killed when run over by front end loader

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 had finished his job and was watching coworkers sawing a pipe with a portable gasoline-powered pipe cutter. The cutter threw out a shower of sparks. Employee #1 jumped back to avoid them and into the path of a front end loader t hat was backing up. He was run over by the front end loader and killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 28 M

    Nature of injury
    3
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    1
    Source
    27
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    9
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    2

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