OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14516942
IMAGE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
ORLANDO, FL·
Event description
Employee killed between truck tailgate and loading dock
Investigation abstract
At 12 noon, Employee #1, age 19, and coworkers broke for lunch. As Employee #1 w ding directly behind the truck before he was fatally crushed between the truck's tailgate and the loading dock. . ent down the loading dock steps, he saw a truck back into the area and stop so t he driver could lower the hydraulic tailgate from its traveling position. Employ ee #1 told the driver he would lower it, and proceeded to lower it into a vertic al position below the truck bed level. He then told the driver to hold it a minu te and he would clear an obstruction. Employee #1 walked down the steeply sloped ramp, picked up a folding chair, and set it up on the loading dock. He then mov ed out of the way. The driver backed the truck down the ramp. Near the bottom, t he tailgate started to scrape on the cement ramp. A witness saw Employee #1 stan
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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