Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221578081

SKY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC.

Event
Brake, Connecting, Crushed, Driver, Slope, Struck By, Torso, Tractor, Tractor Trailer, Trailer
NAICS
484121
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346813306
Employer profile
SKY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, INC.
Summary number
221578081
Report ID
0627500

Event description

Employee is killed when hit by tractor trailer

Investigation abstract

At 4:30 p.m. on July 5, 2023, an employee, a driver, was connecting a loaded trailer to a tractor. The employee did not apply the tractor and trailer's brakes before lifting the trailer's landing gear in a sloped terrain. The employee was hit and was killed due to a crushed torso.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 57 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    804

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