OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221657331
DRAGON RECOVERY LLC
LYNCHBURG, VA·
Event description
Employee is killed when run over while preparing to tow vehi
Investigation abstract
At 2:20 p.m. on April 5, 2024, an employee working for a towing company was trauma to multiple areas of his body. assessing a disabled vehicle in need of being towed. The vehicle was a manual transmission whose clutch had gone out. The employee was either assessing the slope of the ground behind the vehicle or he was beginning to push the vehicle onto the tow truck. The vehicle's owner was standing nearby at this time, but the exact details are unclear. Either the owner of the vehicle got into the car and the vehicle began rolling backwards, striking and running over the employee. Or the employee began pushing the vehicle onto the tow truck before it began rolling backwards running him over. The employee died at the scene from severe
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 52 M
- Event type
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.