Laborer Crushed Between the Cross Member of the Boom Lift-Arms and Frame of a Skid-Steer Loader

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• Personal Author:
  Bost, Patrick ; O'Leary, Kathleen ; Schill, Donald P. ; Smith, Emily O. ; Valiante, David J.
• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On October 23, 1999, a 26-year-old laborer was severely injured when he was crushed between the cross member of the boom lift-arms and the frame of a skid-steer loader. He died 18 days later. The worker had been standing in a crouched position on the cross member that connected the boom lift-arms, teaching a co-worker how to operate the machine. The co-worker sat on the operator's seat with the safety bar pulled down, rendering the controls operable. The victim reached into the cab to demonstrate how to raise the boom, slipped, and was caught between the frame and the cross member as the boom lowered. NJ FACE investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Employers should conduct a job hazard analysis
  
  policies and training should be implemented based upon the findings of the analysis. 2. Employers should ensure that workers are trained to operate skid-steer loaders and other mobile equipment.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention Machine-operation Occupational-accidents OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Foreign Born Workers ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE99NJ090
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  9 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026762
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-100206
• 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 99NJ090, 2000 Jul ; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:09abd1cfd08cda765c229540083cda98eadda88ca7267a1273f5d9ab00acbf887475174c8d9c62159b71f0c749eaad3fe7c554ba56fd3748e10b61cd3acfa473
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169203/cdc_169203_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 254.99 KB ]