OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14235121
7777 DRILLING CORP
EASTLAND, TX—
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN CRUSHED BETWEEN TWO TRUCKS
Investigation abstract
At 2 p.m., an employee of 7777 Drilling Corporation in Graham, Texas, had been d riving a 1967 R-200 Mack Winch Truck with a Lowboy Trailer attached to it. He st opped and parked on a slight incline. The employee got out of his truck and walk ed over to the passenger side of a truck with gin poles that was parked directly behind his Mack truck and lowboy trailer. As the employee watched another emplo yee down the gin-pole guy wires, the Mack truck and trailer (which did not have a load on it) rolled back, crushing him against the side of the bed of the gin-p ole truck. The employee was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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