Tanker Truck Driver Killed by Unshielded PTO Shaft

Johnson, Wayne; Rautiainen, Risto

doi:10.26616/NIOSHSFACE02IA024

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Tanker Truck Driver Killed by Unshielded PTO Shaft

2002/10/14
By Johnson, Wayne ; Rautiainen, Risto
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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Johnson, Wayne ; Rautiainen, Risto

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Iowa Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (Iowa FACE) ; University of Iowa. College of Public Health. Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

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In May 2002, a 61-year-old truck driver working for a farm supply cooperative was killed when he became entangled in an auxiliary power take-off (PTO) shaft of a truck tractor. This PTO shaft transferred power from the tractor engine to fuel pumps on the tanker trailer. The PTO shaft was mounted on the outside of the tractor frame on the passenger side. The victim was working alone in the morning unloading a tanker trailer load of diesel fuel he had picked up the night before. After successfully unloading the fuel into a bulk tank nearby, he entered the area near the PTO shaft, between the cab and the rear wheels of the tractor. The unguarded, rotating PTO shaft caught his loose-fitting jacket, and he was instantly entangled, and died at the scene from a broken neck. A coworker arrived at approximately 9:00 a.m. to the work site, saw the truck running, and noticed the victim caught in the PTO shaft, which had broken during the entanglement. The shield for the PTO was missing, and employees and supervisors were unable to locate it, and had no information why, or when, the shield had been removed. Recommendations based on our investigation are as follows: 1. Employers and workers should ensure that PTO drivelines and other exposed drive-train components are shielded from contact with workers. 2. Employers should ensure that workers are trained to recognize the hazards of working near PTO drivelines and other hazardous machine parts.
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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
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Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Accidents Clothing Equipment-design Equipment-operators Equipment-reliability Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 7 Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
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State
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE02IA024
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Funding:

Cooperative Agreement
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Iowa ; OSHA Region 7

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

5 pdf pages
NIOSHTIC Number:

20028343
NTIS Accession Number:

PB2007-107940
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 02IA024, 2002 Nov; :1-5
Federal Fiscal Year:

2003
Performing Organization:

Iowa Department of Public Health
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

1992/09/30
End Date:

2006/08/31
Resource Number:

FACE-02IA024
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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