Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200630283 - Employee killed by falling bundle of compacted cars

Accident Summary Nr: 200630283 -- Report ID: 0316400 -- Event Date: 12/08/1998
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300460615	12/15/1998	5093	0	Kessler Trucking

Abstract: Employee #1, the driver of a flatbed trailer truck, was overseeing the loading of four individual bundles of cars and other miscellaneous metals that had been run through a hydraulic scrap metal compactor. The four bundles had been positioned by an endloader with fork attachments in two stacks of two bundles each on the trailer. Seeing that the rear stack was not properly centered, Employee #1, who was standing on the driver's side of the trailer, near the front bundle, requested the endloader operator to adjust the rear bundle. The endloader was repositioning the rear stack when both the rear and the front stacks shifted and fell over on the driver's side of the trailer. Employee #1 was killed when he was struck in the head by the falling bundles of scrap metal.

Keywords: LOADING, HEAD, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, LOAD SHIFT, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, FLATBED TRUCK, TRUCK DRIVER, UNSTABLE LOAD

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300460615			Fatality	Other	Truck drivers, heavy

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