OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #995621
TRANSPORTATION CABINET OHIO CO MAINTENANCE FACILIT
HARTFORD, KY·
Event description
EMPLOYEE INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY A LOADER
Investigation abstract
At 9:40 a.m. on March 19, 1989, Employee #1 was in the process of acting as a fl agman for a highway maintenance crew, working from his normal work position, the shoulder of the road. The task being performed by the crew was the removal of e xcess dirt and debris from the opposite road shoulder. The equipment being used was a dirt loader, a grader, and several dump trucks. The grader would pile up t he dirt and debris. The dirt loader would then pick it up and deposit it into th e dump trucks. Employee #1 was getting the dump trucks in and out of traffic and getting new trucks into position, when he was struck by the dirt loader and hos pitalized.
Victim
-
#1 Hospitalized Age 48 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE(INDUS) (30)
- Occupation
- Construction laborers (869)
- Human factor
- POSITION INAPROPRIATE FOR TASK (10)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- 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.