OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690701
FRACTURE,SIGNALMAN,WAREHOUSE,CONSTRUCTION,CAUGHT BETWEEN,FUEL TRUCK,TRAILER,BACKING UP,LEG
Event description
Employee's legs broken when caught between truck and trailer
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was a warehouse worker for the Mountain Fuel Supply Co. An employee of another company needed to load a 2 in. plastic gas line onto a trailer and Em ployee #1 was spotting him as he backed up into the warehouse. Employee #1 becam e caught between the trailer and a truck belonging to Mountain Fuel. He sustaine d two fractured legs and was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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