Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1586751.015 - Wisehart Investments, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: Peoria Area Office

Investigation Summary

At 12:15 p.m. on March 29, 2022, Employee #1, an independent contractor, was repositioning blocks of wood as a bulldozer blade was being loaded by a wheel loader with forks attached. An employee of Wisehart Investments, Inc. drove a truck and trailer loaded with a 5,500 pound dozer blade to a company in Pittsfield, Illinois to meet Employee #1, who was contracted with Wisehart Investments, Inc. to transfer the dozer blade from one trailer to the other. The owner of the company located in Pittsfield, Illinois, operating a John Deere 544 Loader with fork attachments, was in the process of lowering the dozer blade from the employee's trailer to Employee #1's trailer, when the blade slid off the forks of the loader and crushed Employee #1. According to the Sheriff-Coroner, David Greenwood of the Pike County Coroner's Office, the cause of death was multiple blunt and compressional injuries as he was struck by a bulldozer blade. Employee #1 was crushed to death by the blade.

Keywords: Blade, Blunt force trauma, Bulldozer, Crushed, Loader, Struck By