OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #760066
CHEST,HEAD,PINNED,CRUSHED,TRUCK,STRUCK BY,BULLDOZER
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 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 855
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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