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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #170749444

WHEEL,FRONT END LOADER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,TRUCK,BACKING UP,INATTENTION

Event
WHEEL,FRONT END LOADER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,TRUCK,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
170749444
Report ID
352430

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

  1. #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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