OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #570317
HEART,DOCK,CRUSHED,TRAILER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
CAUGHT BETWEEN DOCK AND SEMI-TRAILER
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE RE-SPOTTING TRAILERS AT THE RECEIVING DOCK NED AROUND, SHOUTED, AND WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN THE DOCK AND TRAILER. EMPLOYEE #1 W AS IN THE "BLIND AREA" OF EMPLOYEE #2. EMPLOYEE #1 LATER DIED OF MASSIVE INTERNA L BLEEDING FROM A RUPTURED RIGHT ATRIUM OF THE HEART. FOR THE ONCOMING WEEKEND SHIFT. EMPLOYEE #2 STOPPED HIS TRAILER APPROXIMATELY 1 5 FEET FROM THE DOCK AT BAY 2. HE LEFT THE CAB AND NOTED THAT EMPLOYEE #1 WAS RA ISING THE WHEELS ON THE TRAILER NEXT TO HIM AT BAY 3. EMPLOYEE #2 OPENED THE DOO RS OF HIS TRAILER, WENT BACK INTO THE CAB AND LOOKED IN BOTH MIRRORS. HE COULD S TILL SEE EMPLOYEE #1 RAISING THE WHEELS, SO HE BEGAN TO BACK HIS TRAILER UP. EMP LOYEE #1 LEFT WHERE HE WAS WORKING AND OPENED THE DOOR TO BAY 2 TO SPEAK TO EMPL OYEE #3. EMPLOYEE #3 THEN NOTICED MOVING LIGHTS IN THE PART-WAY OPEN DOOR AT BAY 2. HE RAN TO THE BAY 2 DOOR AND SHOUTED AT EMPLOYEE #1 TO JUMP. EMPLOYEE #1 TUR
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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