Inspection Detail

Inspection: 124766452 - John Rhoden & Jana Rhoden

Inspection Information - Office: Bend

Inspection Nr: 124766452

Report ID: 1054115

Date Opened: 09/21/1995

Site Address:
John Rhoden & Jana Rhoden
Coles Ranch Sale 5 Miles South Of
Mitchell, OR 97750

Mailing Address:
8180 North Country Loop, Prineville, OR 97754

Union Status: NonUnion

SIC:2411

NAICS: 0

Inspection Type: Accident

Scope: Partial

Advanced Notice: N

Ownership: Private

Safety/Health: Safety

Close Conference: 09/21/1995

Planning Guide: Safety-Manufacturing

Emphasis:

Case Closed: 09/21/1995

Investigation Summary

Investigation Nr: 789628

Event: 09/21/1995

Employee injured by rolled-over bulldozer

At approximately 3:00 p.m. on September 12, 1995, a Caterpillar D6-C bulldozer had been hauled to the work site and was sitting on a lowboy. The truck driver was lowering the front load lowboy to the ground. The truck had been parked on a slight incline. Because the connection pins were bound, the driver got into the truck and rocked it back and forth. The pins remained bound, so the driver raised the lowboy back up so that he could move the truck to a different spot. Employee #1, of JR Logging, had just climbed onto the bulldozer to start the machine. When the driver connected the air hoses (glad-hands) between the truck and trailer, the trailer brakes released and the truck and lowboy started to roll backward down the road. The trailer wheels went off the edge of the road, causing the bulldozer to roll off the lowboy. The bulldozer rolled down an embankment approximately one and a half times. Employee #1 remained within the screened portion of the dozer. He sustained a fractured vertebrae and possible internal injuries. He was hospitalized at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Prineville and later released.

Keywords: EMBANKMENT, FRACTURE, UNSECURED, ROLL-OVER, WORK RULES, ROPS, BULLDOZER, TRAILER, LOGGING, VERTEBRA

Investigated Inspection
#	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	124766452			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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