Accident: 170002786 - Killed When Loader Overturns Down Embankment

At approximately 8:30 p.m. on May 26, 2000, Employee #1 was driving a CAT 988 front end loader when he went off the roadway, down a 20- to 30-ft embankment, and into a gravel pit. The loader flipped as it went over the embankment, landing on its top. Employee #1 sustained massive head and upper body injuries, and died at the scene. The top of the cab was crushed and it took 9 hours to extricate his trapped body from the vehicle.

seat belt, front end loader, embankment, overturn, rops, equipment operator, construction, head, chest, work rules

Accident: 170008676 - Dies Of Gunshot To Chest

At approximately 3:37 p.m. on December 28, 1999, Employee #1, a taxi driver, was shot in the chest. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he died on December 30, 1999 (Medical Examiner's report #99-1499; Seattle police case #99-540549).

driver, workplace violence, chest

Accident: 120126453 - Injured In Fall From Elevated Work Platform

At approximately 9:00 a.m. on December 8, 1999, Employee #1, a warehouse packer was working at a flour milling facility. He was transferring empty bags or flour sacks onto an elevated flour packing platform for production purposes when he fell from the platform. Employee #1 sustained multiple soft tissue injuries and blunt chest trauma. He was transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for seven days.

warehouse, elevated work plat, fall, chest, fall protection, guardrail, work rules, loading

Accident: 170008643 - Two Shot And Killed By Unknown Gunman

Employees #1 and #2 both started work at approximately 8:00 a.m. At 10:20 a.m., both were shot by an unknown gunman. Employee #1 was shot in the chest and abdomen; he was transported to Harborview Trauma Center, where he died at 12:50 p.m. Employee #2 was shot several times and died at the scene at 10:30 a.m. These were Medical Examiner's cases #99-1246 and #99-1247, and police case #99-485794.

workplace violence, chest, abdomen

Accident: 170588834 - Killed When Struck By Falling Load Of Tires

Employee #1 and coworkers were unloading oversized tires from ship to shore at Pier F206, in Long Beach, CA. The load was the last one for their shift. Employee #1 and a coworker had unhooked the dock side of the crane sling and returned to the safety rig normally used for this operation. Without warning, Employee #1 stepped off the safety rig, looked at the base of the load, and then turned to head toward the warehouse. The tires fell on him, crushing his thorax and causing extensive internal bleeding. He was killed. Employee #1 was part of a discharge gang normally used to unload this type of cargo for the employer,

off loading, longshoring, crushed, falling object, chest, unsecured, loading dock, work rules

Accident: 170616338 - Killed When Run Over By Yarder Truck

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on June 25, 1999, Employee #1, age 19, of Grimmway Farms, Inc., was working underneath a yard truck when it rolled backward and ran over his chest. He was killed.

truck, run over, crushed, chest, agriculture, unsecured, brake, work rules, backing up

Accident: 170053524 - Killed When Struck By Howitzer Breech

Employee #1 was clearing a 155 mm howitzer that had misfired when the weapon inadvertently fired and the breech struck him in the chest. He was killed.

chest, struck by, accidental discharge, mech malfunction

Accident: 170205629 - Killed When Struck By Concrete Column

On the afternoon of March 4, 1999, Employee #1, a journeyman carpenter, was rigging a column form on the eleventh floor on the south side of a building. The tower crane operator was moving concrete column forms from the south tower to the north tower. Several of the columns had already been stripped and flown to the north tower. Employee #1 was rigging the forms using nylon chokers, which were passed through the void between the plywood and the top clamp, and then passed through the second clamp, where they were secured. There was a gap between adjacent 2 x 4's. For some reason, Employee #1 climbed above the second lowest clamp to feed the choker into position and secured himself to the form using his safety harness and pelican hook. No one saw the column topple. Employee #1 was found partially trapped beneath the column and secured to it by his pelican hook. The form was removed from his chest, and the crew members administered CPR until the paramedics arrived . Employee #1 was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m. on March 4, 1999. The cause of his death was multiple blunt force injuries to his chest, caused by the top clamp on the form. Employee #1 had positioned himself on the 29 in. side of the column and was secured to the vertical steel tube by a clamp. He and his crew members had followed this standard practice many times prior to the accident, and the forms were not secured during this time. This incident could have been prevented if the column forms had been securely braced. The employer was cited for a violation of T8CCR 1713(b), which states that form panels for concrete structures shall be securely anchored, guyed, or braced to prevent them from falling or collapsing.

construction, carpenter, bracing, concrete form work, chest, struck by, work rules, unsecured, pinned, cpr

Accident: 896597 - Killed When Crushed By Falling Cabinet

Employee #1 was removing a pipe from under a the cabinet of a drive system when the cabinet fell on top of his chest. He was crushed and killed.

Keywords: construction, falling object, chest, crushed, struck by, unsecured, work rules