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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #690990

AMPUTATED,WORK RULES,RAILROAD CAR,OFF LOADING,ARM,RUN OVER,TRAIN,LEG

Event
AMPUTATED,WORK RULES,RAILROAD CAR,OFF LOADING,ARM,RUN OVER,TRAIN,LEG
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
690990
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee's arm and leg amputated by rail car

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was unloading grain from several rail cars, moving around the wareho use by way of moving line tracks that service the warehouse complex. Employee #1 was working near five empty rail cars on the main line tracks when two coworker s brought two full cars into the area and bumped them into the five empty cars, which moved 94 ft. Employee #1 was found under one of the rail cars between the main line tracks. His left arm and leg had been amputated and he was hospitalize d. The cars that he had been unloading were sitting on a side line.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 23 M

    Nature of injury
    1
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    1
    Source
    38
    Occupation code
    878
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    3
    Task assigned
    1

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