[Landscaper Died of Injuries Incurred When He was Catapulted from the Operator’s Seat of a Truck-mounted Boom]

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• Personal Author:
  Hoffman, Richard E. ; McCammon, Jane B. ; McKenzie, Lyle E.
• Corporate Authors:
  Colorado Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (Colorado FACE) ; Colorado. Department of Public Health and Environment
• Description:
  This landscaper normally worked in the logging industry. The equipment involved with this injury was a Barco model 8000 boom truck designed to lift logs to and from the truck bed, and was owned by the deceased. To supplement his income, he occasionally used the equipment to do landscaping work. On the day of the injury, he was using the truck and boom to lift a large rock from the truck bed to place it on the ground. To accomplish this task, he was seated in the operator's seat located at the rear of the truck bed, at the pivot point of the truck-mounted boom, approximately ten feet off the ground. The seat was not equipped with a seat belt. As the boom swung free of the truck bed, the weight of the rock caused the right rear wheels of the truck to leave the ground. The operator released the rock, causing the truck wheels to drop to the ground. This action caused the operator to be catapulted from the seat. He landed on the ground, clear of the truck, suffering head and spinal cord injuries. He died 33 days later. 1. Proper equipment should be utilized for any specific task. 2. Employers should develop and implement comprehensive written safety programs. As part of this safety program, the employer should determine the rated capacity and design purpose for equipment to be utilized.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
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• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation OSHA Region 8 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96CO080
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028601
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-100519
• 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 96CO080, 1996 Dec ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/09/30
• End Date:
  1997/09/29
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9c63135ac6e2e143b6aceedfc9508d77a79f631332f067e690a00c15e9851c79234f3fa9efb4013474d4159ad5070558a476dd7277d58675b7d14ad9e553ffdd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166521/cdc_166521_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.63 KB ]