OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #693572
SCRAPER,ROLL-OVER,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,SLIP,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,SEAT BELT,UNSTABLE SOIL,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by scraper sliding down dirtpile
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:00 noon on July 27, 1987, Employee #1 was operating a 1979 C he pile sideways for approximately 10 ft until the dirt build-up under the right side apparently caused it to roll over. Employee #1 tried to jump off but the r olling motion of the machine threw him to the ground at the bottom of the pile a nd the machine landed on top of him. Employee #1 died of multiple crushing injur ies. The scraper was equipped with ROPS but no seat belt. Had Employee #1 been w earing a seat belt he most likely would have lived. Witnesses indicated that Emp loyee #1 must have thought that he could ride the scraper down the stockpile, si nce it started out sliding before rolling. aterpillar 62l-B motorized scraper atop an approximately 20 ft high topsoil stoc kpile. He was dumping a load when the right front wheel slipped over the edge of the stockpile. He stopped the scraper and got off. A D-8 bulldozer was sent ove r by the superintendent to assist in getting the scraper down off the pile. A 10 ft ditch was cut in front of the left front wheel of the scraper in an attempt to guide it back up to the top of the pile. The superintendent instructed Employ ee #1 to get off the scraper because it looked as if it were going over the side . Employee #1 got back on the scraper and accelerated. It started sliding down t
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 855
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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