Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 202443495 - Employee Is Killed When Crushed Between Loader and Truck

Accident Summary Nr: 202443495 -- Report ID: 0950633 -- Event Date: 08/28/2006
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
307461061	08/28/2006	1771	238110	Woody Norman Douglas Dba Woody Douglas Gunite Co

Abstract: At approximately 3:05 p.m. on August 28, 2006, Employee #1 was an equipment operator/truck driver for the Woody Douglas Gunite Company. He was assisting with loading a Massey Ferguson Front-End Loader, Model Number 40B, onto a utility tilt-bed trailer that was hitched to a dump truck. He was standing on the ground between the trailer bed and the back of the dump truck, waiting to set the tilt-bed trailer's locking pin and install tie-down chains on the loader. A coworker was operating the loader and was startled when the trailer bed dropped level. The coworker inadvertently pushed hard on the throttle control. This caused the loader to drive off the front of the trailer, crushing Employee #1 between the loader and the back of the dump truck. Employee #1 was killed.

Keywords: LOADING, CRUSHED, DUMP TRUCK, LOADER, TRAILER, TRUCK DRIVER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Other heavy construction		New project or new addition		Under $50,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	307461061			Fatality	Other	Miscellaneous material moving equipment operators

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