OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519995
NOWSCO SERVICES
LAFAYETTE, LA·
Event description
EMPLOYEE CRUSHED BETWEEN TWO TRUCKS
Investigation abstract
ON OCTOBER 31, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS AT THE COMPANY YARD, SANDBLASTING AND PAINT ING COMPANY TRUCK #2859. ANOTHER COMPANY VEHICLE, A REFRIGERATED NITROGEN TRUCK, WAS PARKED ABOUT 12 FEET TO THE SIDE OF THE AREA IN WHICH EMPLOYEE #1 WAS WORKI NG. HE FINISHED SANDBLASTING AND BEGAN PAINTING. HE WAS BENT OVER PAINTING A PAR T OF THE TRUCK WHEN THE NITROGEN TRUCK SUDDENLY ROLLED BACKWARDS, PINNING THE EM PLOYEE BETWEEN THE REAR BUMPER OF THE NITROGEN TRUCK AND A STRUCTURAL MEMBER OF TRUCK #2859. HE WAS KILLED WHEN HIS NECK WAS CRUSHED. THERE WERE NO EYEWITNESSES .
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 33 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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