OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690388
KULLBERG MANUFACTURING
PLYMOUTH, MN·
Event description
EMPLOYEE RUN OVER BY BACKING TRUCK
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 3 PM ON JANUARY 6, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS KILLED WHEN HE WAS RUN AND DECIDED TO COME OUT TO DIRECT THEM. HE WAS STANDING DIRECTLY BEHIND THE TRU CK CLOSEST TO THE SHED, MOTIONING FOR THE TRUCK COMING FROM THE PARKING AREA TO COME AHEAD. HE HAD HIS BACK TO THE TRUCK WHICH WAS BACKING AWAY FROM THE SHED. I T IS NOT KNOWN IF HE WAS STRUCK BY THE TRUCK, OR IF HE FELL WHEN THE REAR WHEELS ROLLED INTO HIM. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS SEMI-RETIRED AND HAD BEEN LAYED OFF THE MORNIN G OF THE ACCIDENT. HE HAD WORKED FOR THE FIRM SINCE 1968. THE LAST TEN YEARS HE HAD WORKED IN THE SHIPPING AREA, DIRECTING AND PARKING TRUCKS. THIS WAS IN ADDIT ION TO HIS USUAL JOB OF RUNNING THE PLANER AND GETTING LUMBER FOR THE MILL. OVER BY THE RIGHT REAR WHEELS OF AN INTERNATIONAL TRUCK. THERE WAS A LOADED TRU CK PARKED IN THE STORAGE SHED. ANOTHER TRUCK WAS PARKED AT THE DOOR OF THE SHED, WAITING TO ENTER. A THIRD TRUCK WAS PULLING OUT OF THE PARKING AREA TO GET INTO POSITION TO ENTER THE SHED. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK CLOSEST TO THE SHED NOTICED THE LOADED TRUCK IN THE SHED AND GOT OUT TO TALK TO THE DRIVER OF THE APPROACHI NG TRUCK. HE THEN DECIDED TO MOVE HIS TRUCK AWAY FROM THE SHED SO THE TRUCK INSI DE WOULD HAVE ROOM TO EXIT. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK COMING FROM THE PARKING AREA SAID THAT HE BELIEVES EMPLOYEE #1 SAW THE TRUCKS MOVING AROUND OUTSIDE THE SHED
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 70 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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