OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14568711
VEHICLE,PINNED,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,CONSTRUCTION,EARTHMOVING EQUIP,CRUSHED,UNSTABLE SOIL,HIGHWAY SHOULDER,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee crushed and killed when loader overturns
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was operating a loader during a routine highway maintenance operatio n. He apparently steered the vehicle onto the highway shoulder to accomodate a p assing motor vehicle. The soft shoulder could not support the loader and it over turned. Employee #1 tried to jump from the overturning vehicle, but he was pinne d underneath it. Employee #1 was crushed and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 5
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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