OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #765685
WORK RULES,INATTENTION,TRUCK DRIVER,CAUGHT BETWEEN,CRUSHED,COMMUNICATION
Event description
Employee crushed and killed between truck and building
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 asked a coworker, a truck driver, to move his tractor trailer away f rom a receiving dock so that a dock plate might be installed. The dock area was constructed so that there was an inclined surface leading away from the building . The truck driver moved the truck approximately 24 in. away from the dock and s topped at the same time that Employee #1 stepped between the building and the tr actor trailer and yelled for the driver to stop. The truck drifted backward, cru shing and killing the employee between the driver's side rear door and a column of the building between receiving docks #1 and #2. The truck driver neither saw nor heard Employee #1.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 2
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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