OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #970442
WW CLYDE & CO
KAMAS, UT·
Event description
Employee hospitalized after truck rolls down embankment
Investigation abstract
At 7:00 a.m. on June 5, 1989, Employee #1 was hauling and dumping topsoil over t he edge of a road under construction. At 1:00 p.m., Employee #1, with a 60 ton l oad of topsoil, went to the dumping area but backed up too far back to the edge of the road. The truck went over the edge of the road and rolled 60 ft to the bo ttom of the slope. Employee #1 remained in the cab of the truck all the way down and was later hospitalized. Employee #1 was not wearing a seat belt. A berm or stop blocks at the edge of the road or a spotter at the dumping area were not pr ovided.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 49 Female
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- STRUCK AGAINST (6)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Truck drivers, heavy (804)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- MATERIALS HANDLG EQUIP./METHOD (8)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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.