Accident Report Detail
Accident Summary Nr: 201390366 - Employee Falls Off of Boxcar; Dies from Multiple Injuries
Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
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304873607 | 09/17/2002 | 4789 | 0 | Caliber Auto Transfer |
Abstract: The deceased, an automobile boxcar loader, was last seen by a co-worker putting an auto bridge plate between two automobile railroad boxcars. Several minutes later, a co-worker found the employee on the ground, unconscious. The employee was taken to a hospital where he later died. It was believed that the deceased might have had a heart attack, but after the autopsy it was determined that the deceased had died from multiple injuries sustained during a fall from an automotive carrier/railroad boxcar.
Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury |
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1 | 304873607 | Fatality | Fracture |