Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200923407 - Employee Is Killed During Truck Repair

Accident Summary Nr: 200923407 -- Report ID: 0355114 -- Event Date: 08/30/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310405162	08/30/2006	1629	237990	Julio'S Trucking

Abstract: On August 30, Employee #1, the owner of a trucking company, was fixing the tail gate of a dump truck. The middle of the tailgate was extruded due to the hauling of gravel and dirt. The employee placed a 4 ft by 6 ft piece of wood between the truck's deformed tailgate and another truck and applied compressive pressure in order to fix the deformation. The employee tried five times, unsuccessfully, to repair the tailgate. On the sixth attempt, the piece of wood broke and struck the employee in his chest and right arm, breaking his arm and killing him instantly due to the impact.

Keywords: CHEST, FRACTURE, TAILGATE, AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, WOOD SLAB, CONSTRUCTION, TRUCK, MECH MAT HANDLING, STRUCK BY, ARM

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310405162			Fatality	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Truck drivers, heavy	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Site grading and rock removal Fatality Cause: Collapse of structure

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