OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14511745
FRONT END LOADER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
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
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#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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