Excavation Company Owner Dies after Bulldozer Slips Over the Side of A Flat Bed Trailer

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• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 28-year-old male owner of an excavation company (victim) was fatally injured after the bulldozer he was operating slipped over the side of a flat bed trailer. The injury occurred as a result of the victim striking his head on the bulldozer's rollover protective structure (ROPS). The seat belt in the bulldozer had been removed
  
  the victim was not restrained in the bulldozer. At the time of the incident the trailer sat across (blocking) a 7 percent inclined roadway. As the victim backed the bulldozer toward the rear of the trailer, its metal track cleats slipped on the metal surfaced portion of the trailer over the wheels down grade toward the trailer's edge. The bulldozer slipped off the edge and overturned onto its left side. The victim struck his head on the ROPS as he attempted to jump clear. He died of the injuries he received. MN FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar occurrences, the following guidelines should be followed: 1. trailers should be level and stable before unloading equipment to prevent slippage of the equipment off trailer edges
  
  2. seat belts should be provided for earth moving or other types of mobile construction
  
  equipment
  
  and 3. operators should be restrained with seat belts when using construction equipment to avoid the hazards of being thrown from, or injury within, it.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Drivers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-belts Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92MN018
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027368
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-112912
• 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 92MN018, 1992 Dec ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9d166b5ac843acc04b6d03716b661412e119870308d7b9b040249609bd5c39b140011fefaf37d36637070bf40da21a009c8f75d87d075c8f029d75fb5163775b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167228/cdc_167228_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.07 KB ]