OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #825364
HEAD,WORK RULES,EQUIPMENT OPERATOR,ROPS,CAUGHT BY,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,LOADER,LOST BALANCE
Event description
Employee killed between skid loader mechanism
Investigation abstract
At 7:30 a.m. on December 19, 1987, Employee #1, an equipment operator, of union the loader and was about to dump or had dumped the load when something happened that caused him either to lose his balance or to slump over onto the left side o f the body of the loader. The hydraulic arm of the bucket came down and caught h is head between the arm and the body of the loader. He had been wearing a hard h at, which was knocked off. When employees of A.P. Green and M&T Chemicals return ed to the area, they found Employee #1 caught by the left hydraulic arm and remo ved him while an ambulance was called. He was taken to shock trauma, where he wa s pronounced dead on arrival. Employee #1 had suffered a massive heart attack ab out five years ago, but because there were no witnesses to the fatality, it is i mpossible to say what caused him to become caught between the arm and the body o local #37, had been assigned to work by the district manager for the Keibler-Tho f the loader. The rollover protection with side mesh guarding screens, which had come with the loader as standard equipment when first purchased, had been remov ed years before and had not been replaced. If it had been in place, Employee #1 might not have become caught by the loader's hydraulic arm. No safety violations have been cited. mpson Corporation. Keibler-Thompson had sub-contracted with M&T Chemicals, Inc. to remove broken concrete, rebar, and other debris from A.P. Green Services, Inc . After being instructed by the person in charge for A.P. Green, Employee #1, wh o was the only Keibler-Thompson employee present, began using a John Deere 24-A skid loader. Employees of A.P. Green and M&T Chemicals had all left the work are a for different reasons, leaving Employee #1 alone for approximately 10 minutes. During that time, Employee #1 apparently put a load of debris in the bucket of
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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