Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200571545 - Employee Is Struck and Killed by Falling Load

Accident Summary Nr: 200571545 -- Report ID: 0316700 -- Event Date: 03/02/2011
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
314244179	03/02/2011	3999	321999	Witmer Mulch

Abstract: At approximately 2:00 p.m. on March 2, 2011, Employee #1, a delivery driver with Witmer Mulch, was at a loading area helping to load a mulch hopper onto a flatbed tractor-trailer. A chain was attached to the factory-welded lifting eyelets on the top of the hopper. A Caterpillar 938F wheeled loader lifted the hopper. It slid off the loader's forks and struck the left side of Employee #1's head and face. He was killed.

Keywords: CHAIN, LOADING, SUSPENDED CEILING, UNSECURED, TRUCK, LOADER, STRUCK BY, FLATBED TRUCK, TRUCK DRIVER, UNSTABLE LOAD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	314244179			Fatality	Other	Truck drivers, heavy

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