OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #726596
EJECTED,WORK RULES,COLLISION,CRUSHED,TRUCK,UNMANNED,RUN OVER,TRUCK DRIVER
Event description
Employee killed when run over by own vehicle
Investigation abstract
At a piggyback railroad terminal a spotter-truck being driven by Employee #1 col lided with a Ford 9000 over-the-road semi-trailer truck. Employee #1 was pulling out of a trailer parking area. The semi-trailer was also leaving the facility o n the terminal roadway, but was too far over on the wrong side of the road. Empl oyee #1 was thrown out the cab window and run over by his own vehicle when it wa s somehow thrown into reverse during the collision. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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