OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519813
WHEEL,BRAKE,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,TRAILER,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
RUN OVER BY BACKING TRACTOR TRAILER
Investigation abstract
TWO LABORERS WERE USING A PORTABLE CONVEYOR TO LOAD RICE INTO BARGES. TRUCKS WIT H DUMP BODY LONG TRAILERS WOULD BACK DOWN AN INCLINED ROADWAY AND DUMP RICE ONTO THE CONVEYOR, FROM WHERE IT WOULD BE LOADED ONTO THE BARGES. AS ONE OF THE TRUC KS BACKED INTO POSITION, THE DRIVER NOTICED THE TWO LABORERS ATTEMPTING TO REPOS ITION THE CONVEYOR. THE TRUCK DRIVER PARKED ON THE INCLINE APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET FROM THE CONVEYOR, SET THE TRAILER BRAKES, THEN GOT OUT AND WENT TO ASSIST THE LABORERS. THE TRACTOR-TRAILER ROLLED BACKWARDS TOWARDS THE THREE MEN. EMPLOYEE # 1 WAS STRUCK AND RUN OVER BY THE TRAILER'S REAR WHEELS. HE WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.