OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #602508

BRAKE,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,TRIPPED,FALL,TRACTOR,RUN OVER,UNSTABLE POSITION

1990-01-29T00:00:00

Event: BRAKE,CONSTRUCTION,BACK,TRIPPED,FALL,TRACTOR,RUN OVER,UNSTABLE POSITION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 602508
Report ID: 420600

Event description

Employee run over and killed by tractor wheel

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 had been smoothing a private dirt road, using a 1978 John Deere trac tor, JD-401-B #290599T, that was dragging some heavy truck tires. When finished, he disconnected the tires and drove back down the road toward the storage shed. He saw a short section of PVC pipe in the road. As he approached the pipe, he t urned off the ignition and jumped off the slowly moving tractor. As he reached f or the PVC pipe, he tripped and fell face down in front of the left rear wheel. The tractor's momentum caused the wheel to roll up on his back and stop. Employe e #1 was killed. He was discovered sometime later by a passing mail carrier.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 46 M

Nature of injury
2

Part of body
3

Event type
1

Source
30

Occupation code
999

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

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