OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14541932
CHATTOOGA BLOCK & MASONRY PRODUCTS, INC.
TRION, GA·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by backing truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had reported to work but was standing next to a block molding buildi and was aware of job procedure. The driver of the backing truck had a clear path of travel and was looking into both mirrors, but never saw Employee #1, who wei ghed 361 lb. ng and talking to a coworker while waiting for another driver to load and leave. The driver loaded his blocks, leaving space for 1 1/2 tons of sand to be loaded by the company owner. Then he coiled up the boom leads and mounted the truck to back up to allow the owner to load the sand. As the owner, operating the loader , entered the sand pit, the driver began backing the truck into position. At the same time, Employee #1 began walking along the truck, cut into its path, and wa s struck by the backing truck. Employee #1 was killed. The truck did not have au dible back-up alarms installed. Employee #1 had worked in this job for 13 years
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Truck drivers, heavy (804)
- Human factor
- SAFETY DEVICES REMOVED/INOPER. (9)
- Environmental factor
- SOUND LEVEL (16)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.