Hispanic Dump-Truck Driver Dies After Being Caught Between Frame and Dump Body of Off-Road Truck While Performing Routine Lubrication - Tennessee: FACE 2002-08

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On June 24, 2002, a 21-year-old Hispanic dump-truck driver (the victim) died after being caught between the frame and dump body of an off-road dump truck while performing routine lubrication. The victim was working for an excavation contractor at a landfill expansion site on the day of the incident. The victim's foreman drove by the area where the company service truck was set up and stopped to investigate when he heard the air compressor running but not the usual clicking sounds made when workers are greasing their trucks. He found the victim caught between the frame and dump body of the truck. The foreman called out for help and then called 911 from his cell phone. An excavator operator working nearby responded to the foreman's call for help and climbed into the cab of the truck and raised the bed. Emergency medical services (EMS) and law enforcement personnel responded within 10 minutes. EMS personnel transported the victim by ambulance to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Crush Injuries
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Safety-programs
  • Safety-practices
  • Work-practices
  • Hydraulic-equipment
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Hispanic ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Foreign Born Workers ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Motor Vehicles - Dump Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200208
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; OSHA Region 4
• 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
• Contributor:
  Higgins, Doloris N.
• Volume:
  2002
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022202
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-100553
• 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:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2002/06/24
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2002-08
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167355/cdc_167355_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 517.59 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5ac13f5d684b35409ec68f0525d0e5f8595454907a4fee93b8fa6c78aebef796c56d5a7a0d68abe590203b0e43426601eaf4ce2725d1befe8a018ad4ee950308