OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170246920
HEAD,FRONT END LOADER,BRAKE,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TORSO,CRUSHED,RUN OVER,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by loader
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on April 10, 1990, Employee #1 and a coworker were cl 1, crushed his upper torso, and stopped with its right rear wheel on his head. E mployee #1 was killed instantly. eaning and patching storm drain catchbasins in a new development. Employee #1 wa s working in a 4 ft 2 in. deep catchbasin on the north side of a roadway; his co worker was in a 3 ft 2 in. deep catchbasin on the south side. The openings to th e catchbasins were 18 in. and 24 in., respectively. Before beginning work, Emplo yee #1 parked a John Deere 544-B front end loader across the roadway between the catch basins as a warning for traffic. Both men were lying down on the roadway, with their heads and upper torsos extending into the catch basins, when the loa der rolled approximately 14 ft backward and to the north. It ran over Employee #
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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