OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #813733
SLIP,TRUCK,JACK
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN TRUCK SLIPPED OFF JACK
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:32 a.m. on July 29, 1989, Employee #1 was preparing to change the universal joints in the drive-line of an International-4200 dump truck. Emp loyee #1 had jacked up the rear of the truck with a Walker-Model 193692 pneumati c jack and placed a jack stand under the left rear axle and was attempting to pl ace a jack stand under the right rear axle. At that point, the truck slipped off of the jack. Employee #1 sustained traumatic head and neck injuries resulting i n his death on July 30, 1989.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 507
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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