OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #521112
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
COMMERCE CITY, CO·
Event description
Employee killed when caught between tractor and trailer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was coupling a yardbird, a semi-tractor-type vehicle, to an unloaded trailer. While he was hooking an air line from the yardbird to the trailer, he was between the tractor and trailer. The tractor rolled back, trapping the emplo yee between the trailer and yardbird. He was killed. Employee #1 was not followi ng the written procedure for coupling. The procedure, however, was not implement ed plant-wide. Employee #1 was not adequately trained in the written coupling pr ocedure, and the employer did not supervise or enforce the procedure.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 Male
- Nature of injury
- Asphyxia (2)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MATER-HANDLG PROCED. INAPPROPR (11)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.