Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 171057896 - Employee killed when struck by track of rolling dozer

Accident Summary Nr: 171057896 -- Report ID: 0854910 -- Event Date: 08/05/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301161097	08/06/1999	1623	0	Sterling Const Co

Abstract: Employee #1 was using a Caterpillar D-8H bulldozer to help to move other vehicles up a steep section of a pipeline right-of-way. The vehicles were attached by choker cable to the bulldozer and then pulled to the top. Employee #1 stopped the dozer on the steep grade, set the parking brake, and dismounted to hook up a bus he was going to pull to the top of the hill. He had been off the bulldozer for several minutes when the parking brake failed and the vehicle began to move downhill. Employee #1 tried to jump back onto the dozer but he became entangled in its track and was killed.

Keywords: BRAKE, WORK RULES, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, CONSTRUCTION, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, EQUIPMENT FAILURE, STEEP GRADE, STRUCK BY, BULLDOZER, ENTANGLED

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Pipeline		New project or new addition		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	301161097			Fatality	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Operating engineers	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Traffic protection Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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