OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #753608
COACHELLA VALLEY PUMP & SUPPLY
PALM SPRINGS, CA·
Event description
One employee killed, one injured by out-of-control loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working at the base of a 154 yard driveway that had been built a ncy brake and lowered the loader bucket to the driveway, but was still unable to stop the loader. The loader apparently hit the pillar and slid sideways, pinnin g Employee #1 against a stone wall and killing him. Employee #2 was hospitalized for shock. t an approximately 20 percent grade on an hillside. He was replacing a water pum p near a stone pillar that supported a security gate. Employee #2 was operating a wheeled front end loader to move excavated material to a dump truck. He had br ought a load of dirt to the dump point at the top of the driveway and was waitin g for the dump truck to return. When a delivery van drove up Employee #2 lifted the loader's bucket to allow the van to pass on the narrow driveway. As Employee #2 lifted the bucket, the loader began to roll down the driveway. Employee #2 a ttempted to apply the brake, but could not stop the loader. He pulled the emerge
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 13
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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