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Accident: 200742328 - Employee Killed When Rim Assembly Blows Off Inflating Tire
Accident: 200742328 -- Report ID: 0213100 -- Event Date: 12/28/2007 | |||||||
| Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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| 310524525 | 12/31/2007 | 1629 | Douglas R. Dyer & Sons Contracting Inc. | ||||
| On December 28, 2007, Employee #1 was on a crew preparing to begin snow removal at a shopping mall. He had started his Yale 1900 wheel loader, when he noticed the left front tire was flat. A coworker operating a Caterpillar 950B wheel loader with an onboard air compressor pulled his machine alongside Employee #1's Yale loader. They connected a 20 ft length of 3/8 in. air hose to the compressor and began inflating the tire. Before starting, the flat tire registered at 15 psi; normal pressure for the tire was 35-40 psi. Although the air hose was equipped with a clip-on chuck, it did not have an inline pressure gauge, so Employee #1 had to check the tire pressure periodically with a handheld tire gauge. As the tire was inflating, the lock ring on the rim assembly blew off the rim and struck Employee #1 in the head. He was transported to the hospital, where he died two days later as a result of his injuries. | |||||||
Keywords:
head, blowout--tire, work rules, construction, high pressure, restraining device, inflating, struck by, flying object, tire rim
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| End Use | Proj Type | Proj Cost | Stories | NonBldgHt | Fatality | ||
| Highway, road, street | Other | Under $50,000 | X | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | Construction |
| 1 | 310524525 | Fatality | Fracture | Occupation not reported | FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Site clearing and grubbing FatCause: Struck by falling object/projectile |
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