OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221603996
317734313 - BLAYLOCK INC
COQUILLE, OR—
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
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#1 Fatality Age 63 M
- Event type
- 12
- Occupation code
- 496
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