Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200641850 - Employee killed when bale of cardboard fell on him

Accident Summary Nr: 200641850 -- Report ID: 0627700 -- Event Date: 05/24/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303640080	05/25/2001	4213	0	Choctaw Carriers, Inc.

Abstract: Employee #1 had hauled a load of old cardboard containers to a recycling plant in a semi-trailer truck with a van-type trailer. Employee #1 entered the plant, had the truck weighed on the plant scales and then got into the line of trucks waiting to have the trailer unloaded by plant personnel. As Employee #1 was waiting in line, he opened the rear trailer doors, which he was required to do to so that the trailer could be unloaded. Employee #1 had opened the right-hand door and latched it back out of the way. When Employee #1 unlatched the remaining, left-hand door, a bale of the old cardboard containers fell out upon him. The bale weighed 1,071 pounds. Employee #1 was killed by the falling bale of old cardboard containers.

Keywords: LOAD SHIFT, DRIVER, CRUSHED, TRACTOR TRAILER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	303640080			Fatality	Concussion	Truck drivers, heavy

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