OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #893891
EJECTED,TRAFFIC ACCIDENT,VEHICLE,AIRPORT,WORK RULES,COLLISION,STRUCK BY,INATTENTION,OVERTURN
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by airport mobile lounge
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:15 a.m. on March 21, 1989, Employee #1 was using a cargo trac toward gate D3. The cargo tractor struck the right rear wheel of the mobile loun ge and overturned. Employee #1 was ejected from the cargo tractor and struck by the mobile lounge. He died instantly due to severe crushing injuries. A witness stated that the employee appeared to be looking back over his left shoulder and did not see the mobile lounge before the collision. Causal factors related to th is accident appear to have been Employee #1's failure to look where he was going and his subsequent failure to yield the right-of-way to a higher priority vehic le. tor to go from midfield terminal gate D3 to gate C22 to get rainpants. It was ra ining steadily as he traveled east just south of the A0A vehicle traffic lanes. At the same time, a Plane Mate mobile lounge #650 Texas was traveling east on ta xiway R-1 with a load of passengers destined for gate D3. Taxiway R-1 and the A0 A vehicle traffic lanes run parallel with the A0A vehicle traffic lanes adjacent to and south of taxiway R-1. Airport right-of-way regulations give priority to aircraft mobile lounges over cargo tractors. The mobile lounge continued southea st across the vehicle traffic lanes and then turned right, proceeding southwest
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 469
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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