OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #633628
UNSECURED,PINNED,TRAILER TRUCK,CRUSHED,OFF LOADING,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
Employee dies after being crushed by 10,000 lb bundle
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:05 a.m. on September 29, 1987, Employee #1 was unloading cla pboard siding bundles from a truck trailer. Employee #1 was inside the trailer u nblocking the siding bundles. He remained inside the trailer while a 40-in. by 8 3-in. by 20-ft bundle of siding weighing 10,000 lb was being removed from the tr ailer by a fork truck. The load was almost out of the trailer when it tipped ove r, pinning Employee #1 against the trailer. He sustained crushing injuries and w as taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 59 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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