A Tractor Operator Dies When His Tractor Rolls Over On Him

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• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A 69-year-old equipment operator died when the tractor he was operating rolled-over as he attempted to make a left turn at the bottom of a steep ravine he had just descended. The victim was clearing the land and doing site preparation for a future housing development and golf course. A witness to the incident saw the unbuckled victim standing at the operator controls just prior to it rolling over. The tractor was equipped with the required rollover protective structure (ROPS) and seat belt. The front of the tractor was equipped with a clamshell type bucket with a capacity of approximately five yards. The bucket was in a raised position when it rolled over. The employer had no written Injury and Illness Prevention Program, written job hazard evaluations, or documented training programs for employees at the time of the incident. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future occurrences, employers, as part of their Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) should: 1. Ensure that employees, when operating equipment, wear the seatbelt that is required with the equipment. 2. Ensure operators are trained and skilled in safe work practices, especially maneuvers that adversely affect the center of gravity and increase the likelihood of a tractor rollover.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-measures Safety-belts Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Tractors Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Agriculture ; Construction ; Hispanic - Agricultural ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE01CA002
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:20027282
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-111168
• 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 01CA002, 2001 Sep ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Health Services
• 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-512:73c804d14b2692bc51ced232c010de977fb4ed6da65dbcd52b6d97449041c74f246aec973fd630c2648efc9b04343c15af77144c443e72abe9099a0bcc921508
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/168950/cdc_168950_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 61.13 KB ]