OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170064455
CONSTRUCTION,LANDFILL,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,TRACTOR,INATTENTION
Event description
16-year-old employee struck and killed by landfill tractor
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:36 p.m. on February 20, 1990, Employee #1, age 16, was at the City of Tucson's Los Reales landfill dumping trash from a dump truck. The opera tor of a D9N track-type tractor did not see Employee #1, who had his back toward the tractor. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 16 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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