OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221660244

JEFF DEVENY INC.

AUSTIN, TX· 2024-04-24T00:00:00

Event: Battery, Battery Charger, Carpenter, Construction, Crushed, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Framing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Pickup Truck, Residential Construction, Rolled, Run Over, Struck By, Tire, Unsafe Position, Unsecured, Wheel, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 238130
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347437337
Employer profile: JEFF DEVENY INC.
Summary number: 221660244
Report ID: 0625400
Project type: A
Construction end-use: A

Event description

Employee is killed when pulled underneath tires of SkyTrak

Investigation abstract

At 12:30 p.m. on April 24, 2024, an employee working as a carpenter for a framing contractor was trying to hot start a a SkyTrak using a Ford 150. The employee connected the positive battery terminal of the truck to positive terminal of the starter on the SkyTrak. The SkyTrak started up on the 5th attempt and immediately started rolling backwards striking the employee and then pulling him underneath the tires. The employee died from multiple crushing injuries to his lower body.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 48 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
567

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