OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851162
CRYSTAL SPRINGS GOLF COURSE
SEYMOUR, WI·
Event description
Employee killed when pinned against golf cart by tractor
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:30 a.m. on June 15, 1988, Employee #1 was riding on a golf c art as he watered the greens at a golf course. Somehow the employee drove the ca rt off the green and into a drainage ditch. He went into a maintenance shed near the ditch and got a Massey Ferguson Turf Special (tractor) and drove it back to the ditch. The employee then went into the ditch to hook one end of a chain to the golf cart and the other end to the tractor. As he worked, the tractor rolled down the hill and into the ditch. The tractor pinned Employee #1 against the go lf cart and crushed his chest. He died of internal hemorrhaging.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 19 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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