Accident Report Detail
Accident: 655670 - Employee Dies Of Head Injuries After Falling From Truck
Accident: 655670 -- Report ID: 0134000 -- Event Date: 12/13/1993 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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109622431 | 01/20/1994 | 1711 | Fraser Engineering Co., Inc. | ||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
109622233 | 12/14/1993 | 5171 | Exxon Co., U.S.A. | ||||
At approximately 1:00 p.m. on December 13, 1993, Employee #1 was standing on top of a tanker truck during an air purging operation. He had placed the loading arm into the tanker truck opening and was holding onto it while waiting for instructions to open the loading arm valve. The loading arm struck Employee #1 with a violent upward movement, knocking him off the top of the tanker truck. He fell approximately 9 ft to the pavement and struck his head. On December 20, 1993 he died in the hospital from serious head injuries | |||||||
Keywords:
tank truck, head, purging, struck against, construction, fall, struck by
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 109622431 | Occupation Not Listed | |||||
2 | 109622233 | Fatality | Concussion | Miscellaneous plant and system operators |