Fatality Narrative: Mechanic Crushed Between Bed and Frame of Dump Truck

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• Corporate Authors:
  Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
• Description:
  On October 13, 2005, a heavy equipment maintenance mechanic was killed when the raised bed of a dump truck lowered and crushed him. The 53-year-old victim was employed by a heavy construction company. He had worked as a mechanic in the company's heavy equipment and construction vehicle maintenance repair shop for 12 years, servicing and repairing equipment, and replacing and fabricating components. On the day of the fatal incident, the victim and another employee were servicing a dump truck. They thought their work was completed but then realized that they needed to adjust a control cable. To access this cable they raised the bed of the truck and went up onto the truck's frame. They did not use, as they had earlier in the day, the truck's installed safety pole which is used during servicing to prevent the accidental lowering of the bed. According to the surviving employee, their work was only going to take about a minute. The victim was sitting on the frame of the truck adjusting the cable when he realized that the bed was about to come down and yelled at his coworker to get off the bed. The coworker escaped without injury, but the victim was struck and crushed by the falling bed. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Construction Materials
  • Education
  • Electric Injuries
  • Mortality
  • Occupational Health
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Workers
  • Work environment
  • Construction
  • Construction workers
  • Employees
  • Construction materials
  • Construction equipment
  • Equipment operation
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Equipment operators
  More +
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051769
• Citation:
  Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 71-46-2006, 2006 Apr; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Fatality narrative: mechanic crushed between bed and frame of dump truck
• End Date:
  20260630
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228827/cdc_228827_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 56.57 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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