OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #667295
DITCH,AGRICULTURE,PINNED,WORK RULES,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,CRUSHED,TRACTOR,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee crushed to death under tractor
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a farm owner, was riding on an agricultural tractor that was being pulled out of a ditch. The tractor overturned, pinning Employee #1 underneath it and killing him. Employee #1 should not have been riding on the tractor as it w as being extricated and the wrong method was used to extricate the tractor.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 50 M
- Nature of injury
- 2
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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