Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 166024.015 - Employee is killed when pulled underneath tires of SkyTrak

Accident Summary Nr: 166024.015 -- Report ID: 0625400 -- Event Date: 04/24/2024
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1743733.015	04/24/2024		238130	Jeff Deveny Inc.

Abstract: At 12:30 p.m. on April 24, 2024, an employee working as a carpenter for a framing contractor was trying to hot start a a SkyTrak using a Ford 150. The employee connected the positive battery terminal of the truck to positive terminal of the starter on the SkyTrak. The SkyTrak started up on the 5th attempt and immediately started rolling backwards striking the employee and then pulling him underneath the tires. The employee died from multiple crushing injuries to his lower body.

Keywords: Battery, Battery Charger, Carpenter, Construction, Crushed, Defect, Defective, Defective Equipment, Framing, Lack of Engineering Controls, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Pickup Truck, Residential Construction, Rolled, Run Over, Struck By, Tire, Unsafe Position, Unsecured, Wheel, Wrong Equipment

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Single family or duplex dwelling		New project or new addition			2		X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1743733.015	48	M	Fatality		Carpenters	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite Fatality Cause:

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