Driver Crushed by Rollaway Woodchip Truck

Details

• Personal Author:
  Clark, Randy ; Karolczyk, Paul ; Schoonover, Todd
• Corporate Authors:
  Washington (State). Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (WA FACE) ; Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries ; Washington (State). Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention
• Description:
  Around midnight on July 29, 2019, a 45-year-old semi-truck driver was fatally crushed by his woodchip truck when it rolled away. The driver was at a sawmill in Washington State picking up woodchips for delivery to a pulp mill in British Columbia. After loading the chips, he parked his truck on a paved road under a fall protection tarping station. The road had a 2% downgrade. The driver did not set the truck's parking brake before exiting the cab to access the top of the trailer to prepare his load for tarping. While the driver was walking on top of his load near the back of his trailer, his truck began to roll forward. He ran toward a ladder at the front of the trailer that went down to a walkway behind the tractor. While trying to descend the ladder, he went over the edge of his trailer and fell to the road. The only other driver at the mill left the site without seeing the incident. Almost two hours later, another truck driver entered the site and found the driver fatally crushed under his tractor's left front drive wheels.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Analysis Accident Prevention Fatalities Motor Vehicles OSHA Region 10 Safety Practices Traumatic Injuries Truck Drivers Trucking Vehicle Safety
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE22WA5252
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Washington ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066892
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 22WA5252, 2022 Apr ; :1-22
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS) ; 484230 - Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:148a36efb64db5e9c29a165d7ea306efa91fca29a0ad97205fa56d0da6f4a582df315b1fb34f7448e9e1d21695ff36a45d14310b4e016fb03f83cfb3ddec0e85
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/164854/cdc_164854_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.42 MB ]