OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #760066
DISTRIBUTION CONSTRUCTION CO.
HOLLY SPRINGS, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE FATALLY CRUSHED BETWEEN BULLDOZER AND DUMP TRUCK
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:15 p.m. on May 1, 1989, Employee #1 and another employee wer he bed of a dump truck. Employee #1 suffered fatal crushing injuries to his ches t and head. e attempting to start a John Deere bulldozer. They removed a battery from a dump truck, installed it in the bulldozer, and started the bulldozer. The employees then started to remove the battery from bulldozer to put back in truck. Employee #1 was standing on the track of the machine next to the battery compartment and the other employee was standing in the operator cab. Without warning, the bulld ozer started moving backward at a fast rate of speed. Employee #1 jumped from th e track and ran to the back of the machine seeking an escape route. The back lef t corner of the bulldozer frame struck the employee pinning him between it and t
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- CAUGHT IN OR BETWEEN (2)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Grader, dozer and scraper operators (855)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.