OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #660282
MAXWHALE CORPORATION
CHELSEA, MA·
Event description
Employee crushed to death between truck and trailer
Investigation abstract
At 3:11 a.m. on March 3, 1988, Employee #1 arrived at work to start his work shi ft. He removed the keys to his vehicle from the dispatcher's office, then procee ded to the yard to start his fuel oil delivery truck. At 3:18, a coworker report ed to work and found the keys to his vehicle missing. The coworker assumed that Employee #1 had taken his keys to warm up his truck, since it was a common pract ice for the coworker and Employee #1 to start each other's vehicles. At approxim ately 3:30 a.m., the coworker and another employee became concerned about Employ ee #1 and entered the yard to search for him. They found him dead with his head pinned between the tail light of his fuel oil truck and a storage trailer.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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