OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #784546
LEXINGTON FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT
LEXINGTON, KY·
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was riding on the sanitation truck while the truck was backing up. E mployee #1 moved from the right side step to the back of the truck but lost his footing and handhold. Employee #1 fell behind the truck and was backed over by t he right rear wheel and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 56 Male
- Nature of injury
- Amputation (1)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Laborers, except construction (889)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- PINCH POINT ACTION (1)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.