OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #733980
AGRICULTURE,ROLL-OVER,STEEP GRADE,CRUSHED,TRACTOR,BACKING UP
Event description
FARM TRACTOR ROLLED OVER, CRUSHING EMPLOYEE
Investigation abstract
ON JULY 8, 1987, AT APPROXIMATELY 4 PM, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS BACKING UP A MASSEY FERG USON 180 TRACTOR, WITH 6 FOOT TRAILER ATTACHED, UP THE SIDE OF A STEEP HILL. THE TRAILER JACKKNIFED AGAINST THE REAR TIRE ON THE UPHILL SIDE. THE DOWNHILL SIDE TIRE STRUCK A LARGE ROCK, CAUSING THE TRACTOR TO ROLL OVER ONTO EMPLOYEE #1, CRU SHING HIM. HE WAS KILLED.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 479
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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