OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #734236
COVIL CORPORATION
SPARTANBURG, SC·
Event description
Employee injured when caught between trailers
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was guiding a tractor trailer flatbed rig carrying a load of swing c eiling tiles as it backed up to a storage trailer approximately 45 in. from the ground to off load the tiles. Employee #1 was on the driver's side of the tracto r trailer while guiding. The tractor trailer stopped and Employee #1 moved to th e back of the tractor trailer. He started to ascend into the storage trailer whe n the tractor trailer began backing again, catching Employee #1 between trailers and causing internal injuries to his abdomen. He was hospitalized. The tractor trailer driver did not maintain visual or verbal contact with Employee #1 while backing up.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 593
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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