OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #910018
CITY OF NORTH AUGUSTA - PUBLIC WORKS, STREETS DIV.
N. AUGUSTA, SC·
Event description
Employee killed when run over by trash truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing in front of a garbage truck's rear wheel housing and wa s arguing with a coworker about who was going to ride in the middle seat on the ride back to Public Works after picking up the trash. The driver got tired of wa iting for them and told them to get in the truck. The truck, a Ford trash truck, #1FDNF60H8EVA37882, was on a slight, 5 to 6 percent grade incline. When the dri ver released the emergency brake and put the truck in second gear, the truck rol led forward and over Employee #1. He died of multiple injuries.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Garbage collectors (875)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- SQUEEZE POINT ACTION (4)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.