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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221603996

317734313 - BLAYLOCK INC

Event
Loading, Seat Belt, Shovel, Tips Over
NAICS
113310
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346996242
Employer profile
317734313 - BLAYLOCK INC
Summary number
221603996
Report ID
1054116

Event description

Employee is killed when loading shovel tips over

Investigation abstract

At 7:07 a.m. on September 26, 2023, an employee was operating a 2004 Link Belt log loading shovel. The employee had traveled off the side road approximately fifty feet on level ground. The employee ran up on a stump with his driver side track, and the other track went into a depression, resulting in the shovel tipping over onto the opposite side of the cab. The employee was not wearing his seat belt. The employee was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 63 M

    Event type
    12
    Occupation code
    496

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