OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #980607

LOCOMOTIVE,ABRASION,STRUCK BY,CONTUSION

1990-03-19T00:00:00

Event: LOCOMOTIVE,ABRASION,STRUCK BY,CONTUSION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 980607
Report ID: 551800

Event description

Employee struck and killed by locomotive

Investigation abstract

At approximately 10:25 a.m. on March 19, 1990, Employee #1, a 55-year old transp body. He died. ortation technician employed by Bethlehem Steel Corp., and a switchman were retr ieving locomotive #11 to take it to the locomotive repair shop. The switchman th rew the switch for the track the disabled locomotive was on and went to the remo te control on the disabled locomotive to move it in front of the retrieval locom otive. After the switch was thrown, Employee #1 got off the retrieval locomotive for some reason and opened the switch again. He was bending over to pick up or move something on the track when he was struck by the disabled locomotive and ca rried 25 ft. Employee #1 sustained multiple abrasions and bruises on his entire

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 55 M

Nature of injury
3

Part of body
19

Event type
1

Source
38

Occupation code
824

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
13

Task assigned
1

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