OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565816
CITY OF NOGALES, PUBLIC WORKS DEPT.
NOGALES, AZ·
Event description
Employee killed when run over by garbage truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was driving a 1969 GMC side-loading garbage truck 7500 series, licen rse gear. The coworker was asked to start the vehicle, and as soon as he started it and stepped off, the vehicle started to roll forward. Employee #1 was reachi ng over the right front wheel for the ignition switch, the brake switch, or the transmission shift levers, when the rotating wheel pulled him under. He was run over by the front and rear wheels and sustained severe crushing injuries to his neck and chest. Employee #1 was killed. se #LG 7589, for a local municipality. This truck had several mechanical defects , and on the day of the accident was overheating. It had also developed carburet or trouble: the spring that controls the idling speed had apparently broken and the engine was accelerating at speeds that were too high. Employee #1 and a cowo rker stopped at the local fire station to call a mechanic to check the vehicle. The vehicle was being worked on inside the fire station when the accident occurr ed. The automatic transmission on the truck was also defective; the starter woul d activate the truck even when the transmission was engaged in a forward or reve
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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