Truck Tarper Slips Off Wet Tarp and Falls to His Death

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On March 30, 1990, a 51year-old male trucking company employee in New Jersey slipped off a wet tarp covering a load on a flatbed truck and fell 59½ inches to a concrete floor. He died on March 31, 1990. Although he had performed this task numerous times, this evening the tarp was wet, and his shoes were slippery. FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent future similar occurrences, employers and employees should: 1. perform the tarping in pairs, 2. wear shoes with non-skid soles and adequate tread, 3. evaluate each job task and prepare written safety directions, 4. store tarps in an area protected from the weather.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report
  
  Formerly NJ9001
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Transportation
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Transportation-industry Transportation-workers Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Trucking Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE90NJ002
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026470
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 90NJ002, 1990 Oct ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (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-512:97e0021ad2d1f23be1bbaa94137d7a0bf2ff23b689d5de581b61295e062708121a6dfb0b326e9486f0dbda927be395e768fc23466dfcd8b6bbcbcda798091489
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170145/cdc_170145_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 101.18 KB ]