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Inspection Information - Office: Ca Anaheim (Psm S.) | ||||
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| Nr: 309296325 | Report ID: 0950637 | Open Date: 09/08/2006 | ||
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| 895 Columbia St Brea, CA 92821 | Union Status: Union | |||
| SIC: 4215/Courier Services, Except by Air | ||||
| NAICS: 492110/Couriers | ||||
| Mailing: 22 Brookline, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 | ||||
| Inspection Type: | Accident | |||
| Scope: | Partial | Advanced Notice: | N | |
| Ownership: | Private | |||
| Safety/Health: | Safety | Close Conference: | 09/08/2006 | |
| Close Case: | 01/10/2007 | |||
| Related Activity: | Type | ID | Safety | Health |
| Accident | 102482759 | |||
Accident Investigation Summary | ||||||
| Summary Nr: 201148236 | Event: 08/14/2006 | Employee Is Injured When Pinned Between Dock Plate And Truck | ||||
| On August 14, 2006, Employee #1, a delivery driver, was delivering packages to a large hardware and fastener company. Employee #1 made deliveries to the company five days a week and had done so for approximately 5 years. Employee #1 operated a standard van. As per his routine, Employee #1 backed his van into the standard 18-wheeler loading dock, walked to the back of his van, opened the roll-up door while standing on the bumper, retrieved the packages and gave them off to a receiving employee. As Employee #1 attempted to lock the sliding door on the van his keys fell into the slot of the main dock plate and the lip mechanism. Employee #1 asked an on-site employee to activate the dock plate so he could retrieve his keys. As that employee hit the power to activate the hydraulically driven dock plate, Employee #1 stood on his bumper waiting for the dock plate to rise. Employee #1 had never seen the dock plate activated and as it rose, the lip mechanism that extends into the bed of a standard 18-wheeler trailer started to extend pinning Employee #1 to the roll-up door of his van. An alert employee jumped into the van and released the parking brake allowing the van to go forward and relieve pressure on Employee #1's abdominal cavity. Employee #1 suffered a crushed middle colic artery and other abdominal injuries requiring surgery and eight days of hospitalization. | ||||||
| Keywords: abdomen, loading ramp, caught between, truck, artery, truck driver | ||||||
| Inspection | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |||
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| 1 | 309296325 | Hospitalized injury | Other | Truck drivers, light | ||