9-Year-Old Child Helping with Blueberry Harvest Dies After Being Run Over by Cargo Truck on Field Road - Michigan: FACE 98-15

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On July 28, 1998, a 9-year-old boy (the victim) died after he jumped or fell off the back of a cargo truck and was run over. The victim had been picking blueberries with his father and an 11-year-old boy the morning of the incident. After lunch the boys helped the victim's father pick up plastic containers filled with blueberries and load them onto a cargo truck. The boys were riding in the truck's cargo area as it slowly moved in reverse, when the victim either jumped or fell off and then slipped while trying to jump back onto the truck bumper. He fell face down on the field road, and the truck ran over him. The father felt the truck bump into something, and getting out of the truck to check, he found that he had run over the victim. The father called for help to workers in the field, and a worker used a cell phone to call emergency medical services (EMS). The EMS arrived within minutes of the call, provided emergency care, and transported the victim to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Agriculture
  • Child
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 5
  • Children
  • Heavy-machinery
  • Accident-prevention
  • Trucks
  • Harvest-workers
  • Seat-restraints
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Agriculture ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Farming ; Youth ; Youth - Agriculture ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9815
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  34 pdf pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Castillo, Dawn N. ; Higgins, Doloris N. ; Pettit, Theodore A. ; Myers, John
• Volume:
  1998
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000456
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-157216
• 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:
  2000
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1999/07/28
• Resource Number:
  FACE 98-15
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167395/cdc_167395_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.13 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:bf2f509d4041abc2ea2f4b2bcc1f09e07fc2c3306e41a27993661a7b9790931ddbc1020e633390871d8a6b7c3eb2375d6c24a6b740dabdeea4906150a6c452f5