105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #691022

GARBAGE TRUCK,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN

Event
GARBAGE TRUCK,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BETWEEN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
691022
Report ID
854910

Event description

Employee killed when caught between truck bed and tailgate

Investigation abstract

After Employee #1 had finished unloading a garbage truck, he lowered the tailgat e so that the truck could be used again. The truck's operating controls are at t he front left of the box. As Employee #1 walked from the right rear of the truck , he was caught between the tailgate and the truck's box and was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 34 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    5
    Event type
    2
    Source
    29
    Occupation code
    889
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    4
    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.