OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #851428
HEAD,SHAFT,TRUCK DRIVER,STEEL,BACK,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,FLATBED TRUCK
Event description
Truck driver struck and killed by falling steel shafts
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:50 p.m. on June 8, 1989, Employee #1 arrived at the yard of a him to the ground. The second shaft rolled off the bed and Employee #1 was stru ck again on the head. He was killed instantly. manufacturing plant in a flatbed truck to deliver steel parts. An employee of t he manufacturing company unloaded the truck with a forklift. The forklift driver then loaded two steel shafts, approximately 11 ft long and 6 1/2 in. in diamete r and weighing 1,100 lb each, back onto the truck bed. Employee #1 was standing on the left side of the truck bed. After the forklift backed away, the two steel shafts were resting approximately one foot from the left side of the bed length wise. Employee #1 bent over to pick up a chain to secure the load, when one of t he shafts rolled off the truck bed, struck him on the head and back, and knocked
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 28
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 11
- Environmental factor
- 8
- 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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