OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14513675
ASPHYXIATED,FRONT END LOADER,TRACTOR TRAILER,TRACTOR,TRACTOR--TRUCK,RUN OVER
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN RUN OVER BY SEMI TRUCK
Investigation abstract
At 7:00 a.m. on September 24, 1989, Employee #1 was killed when he was run over by his semi truck. Employee #1 was making a delivery when he began to experience mechanical problems with his truck which was parked on the plant scale. In orde r to remove the truck from the scale he asked the operator of a front end loader to push it. After Employee #1 lined up the front of the front end loader to the rear of his truck he moved to the front of his truck. The front end loader push ed the truck which ran over Employee #1.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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