OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851212
FRONT END LOADER,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN RUN OVER BY FRONT END LOADER
Investigation abstract
ON SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1988, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS WAITING AT THE WEYERHAEUSER PAPER COMPAN Y TO PICK UP A LOAD WITH THE W.H. TRANSPORT SEMI TRUCK AND TRAILER SHE AND HER H USBAND WERE DRIVING. THEIR SON WAS ALSO WITH THEM. THEY HAD BEEN WAITING IN LINE NEARLY 2 HOURS AND WERE GETTING IMPATIENT. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS SEEN WALKING THROUGH THE MILL YARD AT LEAST 3 TIMES TO CHECK ON THE LOADING PROGRESS. DURING ALL THI S TIME A LARGE FRONT END LOADER WAS MOVING WOOD CHIPS FROM A WOOD PILE TO THE CH IP UNLOADING AREA ON A MILL ROAD. ON EMPLOYEE #1'S LAST TRIP TO CHECK ON THE LOA DING PROGRESS SHE WAS RUN OVER AND KILLED BY THE FRONT END LOADER WHILE IT WAS M OVING ALONG THE COMPANY ROAD.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 28 F
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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