OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14455844
GIBBONS & REED CO
OGDEN, UT—
Event description
Employee crushed and killed by truck bed
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was changing the lift control cable on a ten-wheeled dump truck, #17 -950. The new cable was installed on the control lever but had not yet been conn ected to the control valve on the pump. The dump bed was elevated about 18 inche s when Employee #1 apparently leaned in over the left side of the frame and acti vated the control valve lever, causing the bed to fall. Employee #1 was killed. He was working alone and there were no witnesses to the accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 864
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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