OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221612054

PARKLAND USA CORPORATION

SILT, CO— 2023-10-27T00:00:00

Event: Catch Point, Caught By, Clothing, Drive Shaft, Entangled, Fracture, Inspecting, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Motor Vehicle, Pulled In, Rotating Parts, Rotating Shaft, Truck, Truck Driver
NAICS: 424720
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347069502
Employer profile: PARKLAND USA CORPORATION
Summary number: 221612054
Report ID: 0830500

Event description

Employee is killed when pulled into rotating drive shaft

Investigation abstract

At 6:30 a.m. on October 27, 2023, an employee working as a truck driver for a petroleum products wholesaler was dropping off a truck at the end of his shift. The employee climbed underneath the truck to check something and was pulled into the power take off (PTO) pump drive shaft. Employer speculates the drive shaft caught a piece of clothing and pulled the employee into the rotating part. The employee was killed from being entangled in the rotating equipment.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 31 M

Event type
2

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