OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14426886
U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOREST SERVICE
LARAMIE, WY—
Event description
THROWN FROM MOVING ROAD GRADER
Investigation abstract
ON MONDAY, JULY 8, 1985, EMPLOYEE #1 REPORTED TO WORK AT 6:45 AM. IT WAS HIS FIR ST DAY AS A FEDERAL EMPLOYEE. BY 10:00 AM HE WAS ASSIGNED TO AN UNSUPERVISED POS ITION. AT APPROXIMATELY 11:35 AM HE WAS "ROADING" A CHAMPION 710 ROAD GRADER FRO M FOXPARK, WYOMING TO CENTENNIAL, WYOMING. THE GRADER WAS MOVING DOWN A 7% GRADE HILL NEAR ALBANY, WYOMING, WHEN IT LEFT THE MAIN ROADWAY ON A CURVE, CROSSED A PARKING AREA AND WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT INTO A STAND OF TIMBER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS THROWN OUT AS THE GRADER LEFT THE ROAD AND WAS RUN OVER BY THE GRADER'S REAR WH EELS.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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