OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14527956
FALL,OFF LOADING,STRUCK BY,WALKING BACKWARD,FLATBED TRUCK,HIP,PULMONARY EMBOLISM,BACKING UP,INATTENTION,TOWMOTOR
Event description
Employee dies after fall from flatbed trailer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was using a towmotor to unload bales of cotton from a flatbed traile r when he backed off the edge of the flatbed. He fell from the towmotor and the forks struck his hip. He developed a pulmonary embolism while in the hospital, a nd died on October 13, 1987.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 856
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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