OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14556047
LOADER/BACKHOE,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,STEEP GRADE,CRUSHED,INEXPERIENCE,SEAT BELT,LOST CONTROL,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed when pinned under loader/backhoe
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on November 28, 1984, Employee #1 was operating a 19 hydraulic backhoe/front end loader. The backhoe was equipped with a roll-over p rotection structure, but it had only half a seat belt. The other half of the sea t belt and the bracket on the left side of the operator's seat were missing prio r to the accident. 77 Case hydraulic backhoe/front end loader, model #580C, serial #89585300. He wa s hauling concrete rubble from a hillside building demolition site to a dump are a. As he was traveling down the inclined access road to the dump area, he lost c ontrol of the backhoe and it ran off the road and down a 25 ft embankment. Emplo yee #1 was thrown from the backhoe and became pinned under its right rear wheel. He sustained crushing head and chest injuries, and was killed. The vehicle came to rest in an upright position on a local highway. Employee #1 had started work at the site on November 6, 1984, with no known experience in the operation of a
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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