Inspection Detail

Inspection: 300460615 - Kessler Trucking

Inspection Information - Office: Charleston Area Office

Investigation Summary

Employee #1, the driver of a flatbed trailer truck, was overseeing the loading of four individual bundles of cars and other miscellaneous metals that had been run through a hydraulic scrap metal compactor. The four bundles had been positioned by an endloader with fork attachments in two stacks of two bundles each on the trailer. Seeing that the rear stack was not properly centered, Employee #1, who was standing on the driver's side of the trailer, near the front bundle, requested the endloader operator to adjust the rear bundle. The endloader was repositioning the rear stack when both the rear and the front stacks shifted and fell over on the driver's side of the trailer. Employee #1 was killed when he was struck in the head by the falling bundles of scrap metal.

Keywords: LOADING, HEAD, UNSECURED, WORK RULES, LOAD SHIFT, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, FLATBED TRUCK, TRUCK DRIVER, UNSTABLE LOAD