OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #766469
CHOCK,SEVERED,FRONT END LOADER,BRAKE,UNSECURED,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TORSO,UNMANNED
Event description
Employee killed when struck by blade of front end loader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was welding rebar to a beam that was positioned vertically in a tren other safety precautions when parking. The bucket was lowered but not dug into t he ground. ch. He was standing approximately 4 1/2 feet inside the trench, which was locate d at the foot of an approximately 20 percent slope. About one minute prior to th e accident, a CAT model 926 wheel loader was parked on the slope, less than 650 feet from Employee #1. The unmanned loader rolled down the slope and the blade o f the bucket severed his torso above the waist, killing him instantly. The drive r of the loader had not used chocks when parking on an incline and he was not su re whether or not he had set the parking brakes. There was no mechanical problem with the loader's brake system, and there was no evidence that the driver used
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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