OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14379069
AGGREGATE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY CO
DECATUR, IL—
Event description
Employee killed when thrown from lift being off loaded
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was unloading a snorkel lift from a lowboy but apparently had failed to lower the unload ramps. He was riding in the basket of the snorkel lift and was thrown into the air when the lift came down off the lowboy. He landed on the frame of the basket and died of massive internal injuries.
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 804
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.