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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #780080

LOADING,SLIP,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,BULLDOZER,TRAILER,OVERTURN

Event
LOADING,SLIP,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,BULLDOZER,TRAILER,OVERTURN
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
780080
Report ID
953210

Event description

Employee injured by overturned trailer

Investigation abstract

At approximately 2 p.m. on February 2, 1990, Employee #1 was loading a Case 310 crawler dozer onto a flatbed tilt trailer. As the tilt bed was lowered, the doze r rolled back approximately 1 ft. Employee #1 released the clutch and the dozer moved forward, hitting the front of the trailer. The tracks on the dozer continu ed to turn and slid off the left side of the trailer, overturning the dozer onto Employee #1. Employee #1 was crushed and suffered multiple internal injuries fo r which he was hospitalized.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 39 M

    Nature of injury
    21
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    14
    Source
    30
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

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