52-Year-Old Public Employee Dies After Being Crushed between Dumpster and Rails of Roll-Off Truck

Details

• Personal Author:
  Fagliano, Jerald ; Lefkowitz, Daniel ; Lumia, Margaret
• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health. Public Health Services Branch. Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health. Occupational Health Surveillance Unit
• Description:
  A 52-year-old male public employee was crushed to death between the truck bed and the dumpster of a roll-off truck. On the day of the incident, the decedent was dumping a load of leaves at the recycling yard of a Department of Public Works (DPW) in southern New Jersey. A co-worker who found the victim pinned between the rails and the truck bed called 9-1-1. Emergency personnel arrived, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Contributing Factors: 1. The truck was not the unit that the victim usually operated. 2. Slippery/muddy conditions. 3. Worker was outside cab with Power Take Off (PTO) on. NJ FACE investigators recommend that these safety guidelines be followed to prevent similar incidents: 1. Roll-off truck operators should only use the external hydraulic controls when absolutely necessary and if so, with extra caution. If an operator is not intending on utilizing the external controls and is exiting the cab, the Power Take-Off (PTO) should be disengaged. 2. All parts and equipment on the roll-off truck should meet appropriate specifications as specified in 49 CFR 393.203. 3. A safety and health plan based on a job hazard analysis should be developed by the employer and followed where workers are assigned tasks.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident Analysis Accidents Injury Prevention Motor Vehicles OSHA Region 2 Safety Education Training Traumatic Injuries Work Practices
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Other
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE11NJ020
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041966
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-103490
• 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 11NJ020, 2012 Nov ; :1-12
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (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-512:2b810d20e62b34c942e1c5a76aeda1bb8bfc1855a7292ec20b515611e966cd858fd0b2c3dc7420eb89838efaad6e61200c6d255400a9915445806b3c13749878
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165180/cdc_165180_DS1.pdf
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