OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #673632

GRADER,BRAKE,WORK RULES,UNMANNED,RUN OVER,SLOPE

1988-08-05T00:00:00

Event: GRADER,BRAKE,WORK RULES,UNMANNED,RUN OVER,SLOPE
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 673632
Report ID: 751910

Event description

Employee killed when run over by runaway motor grader

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 and a coworker, both motor grader operators, stopped to talk on a ro ad that had a slight incline. Both got out of their graders; however, Employee # 1 left his engine running in neutral without setting the emergency brake or lowe ring the blade. When the grader started to roll Employee #1 attempted to run the grader down and stop it. He fell beneath the wheels of the grader and was kille d.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 35 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
30

Occupation code
855

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
18

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.