Inspection Detail

Inspection: 309476612 - A.I.R., Llc Dba Scottie'S Tire

Inspection Information - Office: Charleston Area Office

Investigation Summary

At approximately 3:00 p.m. on August 22, 2007, two employees of a service garage, a manager and a customer service representative, were guiding a customer who was pulling his Jeep a few feet into a garage bay to have his vehicle checked. The two employees were standing on the other side of eleven tires that had just been stacked in the service bay floor. The customer accidentally put his foot on the accelerator of his vehicle and plunged forward and over the tires and hit both employees. Employee #1, the customer service representative who works in the office, was rammed by the vehicle's front end into a large floor fan which was pushed into a large wall size tool chest. Employee #1 was crushed between the fan and the vehicle which pushed the entire wall back approximately one foot. Employee #1 suffered severe blunt force trauma and died shortly after the accident. Employee #2 was standing far enough to the side that he was not hit head-on by the vehicle but did suffer a fractured leg from the impact along with cuts and contusions. Employee #2 was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, VEHICLE, PINNED, CRUSHED, LACERATION, ABRASION, STRUCK BY, CONTUSION, INATTENTION, LEG