OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #781880
AGRICULTURE,CRUSHED,TREE SECTION,TRACTOR,BACKING UP,OVERTURN,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee crushed to death in tractor overturn
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was driving a 1963 International B-414 tractor and backing up toward a fallen tree. He was preparing to pull the tree from the area with a chain on the back of the tractor. The employee backed onto a stump with the left rear tir e. The tractor overturned and the employee was crushed between the seat and a br ush pile. Employee #1 died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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