Bulldozer Operator Crushed by Bulldozer During Construction of Oil Exploration Island - Alaska: FACE 92-13

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 49-year-old male bulldozer operator (the victim) was crushed to death while compacting earthen fill with a bulldozer during the construction of an oil exploration island. The victim was operating the bulldozer on level ground, alternately in forward and reverse at half throttle. With the blade completely down, the victim presumably shifted the transmission control lever to, or toward neutral. The transmission may have been partially disengaged, but not fully in neutral. Assuming the bulldozer transmission to be in a stable neutral position (and without shifting the transmission control safety lever into the neutral lock position), the victim exited the cab on the right side, and stepped down onto the track of the bulldozer to give directions to a truck driver. Investigative information suggests that at this moment the transmission may have slipped back into the first gear of reverse, causing the bulldozer to move suddenly in reverse. As a result, the victim was pulled between the underside of the fender and the top of the track cleats. As the bulldozer continued in reverse, the victim was fatally crushed beneath the track cleats.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date supplied by FACE program
  
  date does not appear on report.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Crush Injuries
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Construction
  • Construction-equipment
  • Construction-workers
  • Equipment-operators
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-measures
  • Safety-monitoring
  • Safety-practices
  • Accident-prevention
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9213
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  9 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1992
• Issue:
  13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025848
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102152
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1992/02/01
• Resource Number:
  FACE 92-13
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167293/cdc_167293_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 435.73 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4f1b007cee7bb61ef66aaf905cb270490425b781b5ff1192183b4cf601e5f061ee9afefecbf1f63d124412faef78e709e734f7869fa4584086c2a9c5a47db3a0