OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #737759
STEWART MECHANICAL ENTERPRISES, INC.
LOUISVILLE, KY·
Event description
Employee killed when ejected from hydraulic manlift machine
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and a coworker, pipefitters for Steward Mechanical, Inc., were at th he JLG 30 onto the back end of the flatbed truck, the end of the flatbed truck s agged about 4 to 5 in. Employee #1 continued to drive the JLG 30, but at that ti me the flatbed truck began to move away from the dock. The front wheels of the J LG 30 came off the back end of the flatbed truck, causing it to capsize forward and throw Employee #1 out of the operating control cage and into the back of the truck. Employee #1 died at the scene. e dock area of the clear and base coat building at Ford Motor Company, Louisvill e. They were preparing to move a rental JLG 30, a hydraulic manlift machine with a boom and a control operating cage at the end of the boom, by loading it onto the back of a flatbed truck and taking it to an adjacent paint mix building. Ano ther coworker backed up the flatbed truck into bay #8 and got out of the truck. Employee #1 went to the operating control cage of the JLG 30 to drive it onto th e flatbed truck. The coworkers raised and lowered the dock plate onto the bed of the truck and checked out the alignment of the JLG 30. When Employee #1 drove t
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 585
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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