OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #750869
HEAD,STRUCK AGAINST,TRIPPED,FALL,OFF LOADING
Event description
Employee killed in backward fall to avoid rolling trash bin
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was removing gates from a stake bed truck in order to unload three c ubic meter trash bins when one of the bins started to roll off the truck. While trying to get out of the way, Employee #1 either fell, tripped, or was pulled ba ckward off his feet. He landed head first on the ground and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 805
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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