OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #758110
PETTIGREW & SONS INC
FORT WAYNE, IN·
Event description
Employee struck by unstable load elevated on loader
Investigation abstract
A 1978 Ford tractor, model #4400, equipped with forks, was being used to lift co ncrete paving blocks 15 ft to a roof. The maximum reach of a front end loader is only 8 ft. To make up the 7 ft difference, Employee #1, the tractor operator, s tacked ten empty pallets on top of each other and then set a pallet containing 1 50 12 lb paving blocks on top of them. As Employee #1 moved toward the building one of the empty pallets broke, causing the load to fall back toward him. The fr ont end loader did not have a load backrest sufficient to the support load, or o verhead protection to protect Employee #1. He was injured by the falling load.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 595
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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