OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14510986
YOUNG BROTHERS INC. CONTRACTORS
WACO, TX—
Event description
TRUCK STRUCK BY TRAIN AT RAIL CROSSING
Investigation abstract
ON JANUARY 24, 1985, AT APPROXIMATLEY 7:05 AM, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DRIVING A MACK TA GS AT ALL AT THE RAIL CROSSING. NDEM DUMP TRUCK FROM HIS EMPLOYER'S TRUCK PARKING AND MAINTENANCE YARD TO HIS EM PLOYER'S ASPHALT PLANT. TO GET FROM THE PARKING AREA TO THE ASPHALT PLANT IT WAS NECESSARY TO TRAVEL A SHORT DISTANCE OVER A ROAD WHICH HAD A RAIL CROSSING. WHI LE EMPLOYEE #1 WAS CROSSING THE TRACKS HE APPARENTLY DID NOT SEE AN APPROACHING EMPTY COAL TRAIN. HIS TRUCK WAS STRUCK BY THE LEAD ENGINE OF THE UNION PACIFIC T RAIN. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL AND PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:22 AM. DEATH WAS CAUSED BY MULTIPLE TRAUMAS WHICH RESULTED IN SEVERE INTERNAL BLEEDING . THE EMPLOYEE'S SPLEEN AND LIVER WERE RUPTURED. THERE WERE NO SIGNALS OR WARNIN
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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