OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14521017

HEAD,WORK RULES,EXPLOSION,RESTRAINING DEVICE,INFLATING,STRUCK BY,CONCUSSION,FLYING OBJECT,INATTENTION,TIRE

1989-04-26T00:00:00

Event: HEAD,WORK RULES,EXPLOSION,RESTRAINING DEVICE,INFLATING,STRUCK BY,CONCUSSION,FLYING OBJECT,INATTENTION,TIRE
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14521017
Report ID: 524530

Event description

Employee struck by tire rim suffers concussion

Investigation abstract

Employee #1, who has worked at his job for 22 years, was in the bay area, which is 14 ft wide and 5 ft inside the bay door, mounting a 16 in. Goodyear tubeless or radial tire onto a 16 1/2 in. rim. No other employees were present. Employee #1 had misjudged the rim size of the tire and while he was putting air in the ti re it exploded, hitting him in the head, causing a concussion and killing him. R ims have a stamp inside the rim area indicating size, but it is difficult to see . Employee #1 uses 16 in. rims and 16 1/2 in. rims, which makes it difficult to tell what size the rim is without checking the stamp. The casual factor was misj udgment of rim size.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 56 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
9

Event type
1

Source
2

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
5

Task assigned
1

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