OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170749444
WHEEL,FRONT END LOADER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,TRUCK,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee injured when caught between truck and loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing at the rear of a 1993 Mack trash truck tightening the r ight rear turnbuckle. At the same time, a Caterpillar 980C front end loader, ser ial number 63X09227, owned and operated by the Pulaski Company, was backing up. The right rear wheel of the front end loader backed into Employee #1, pinning hi m between that right rear wheel and the right rear wheel of the trash truck. He was hospitalized for his injuries.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 53 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 875
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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