Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221462211

U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

Event
Ejected, Overturn, Patrolman, Police, Seat Belt, Speeding, Traffic Accident, Vehicle
NAICS
928110
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345959977
Employer profile
U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
Summary number
221462211
Report ID
0936200

Event description

Employee is killed when ejected from vehicle

Investigation abstract

At 5:30 a.m. on May 13, 2022, an employee was responding to an activated sensor in his vehicle, a Jeep Rubicon. The employee was traveling down a dirt road at an unsafe rate of speed. When the employee reached a bend, he hit the brakes, cut the steering wheel hard right and caused the vehicle to slide off the embankment and to overturn. The employee, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle and sustained fatal head injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 40 M

    Event type
    6

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