OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #780080
LOADING,SLIP,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,BULLDOZER,TRAILER,OVERTURN
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
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#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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