OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557656
WM BILLY WALKER INC
LOVINGTON, NM·
Event description
Employee killed when doghouse overturns during off-loading
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:00 a.m. on December 31, 1985, Employee #1 and coworkers, the crew of truck #330 of Walker Trucking Company, were off-loading a bottom doghous e from a lowboy trailer. The 23 ft 5 in. long doghouse extended about 10 ft over the back end of the lowboy. They backed up their truck to the rear end of the t railer and released the winch line to hoist the doghouse onto the truck. As Empl oyee #1 placed the winch line on the doghouse, the weight of the line was enough to overbalance the doghouse and cause it to tip over. Employee #1 was crushed b etween the doghouse and the truck, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 614
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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