Accident: 14222632 - Killed In Trench Cave-In
At approximately 2:10 p.m. on July 1, 2000, Employee #1 was in an open, approximately 7 to 8 ft deep by 2 ft 10 in. wide by approximately 30 ft long trench. The excavation caved I, burying Employee #1. He died of asphyxia. The soil was gumbo wet, and the trench had no sloping, shoring, and trench box. In addition, there was soil piled at the edge of the hole, and no means of egress had been provided.
construction, trench, sloping, trench box, shoring, work rules, collapse, buried, unstable soil, asphyxiated
End Use Proj Type Proj Cost Stories NonBldgHt Fatality
Highway, road, street Other Under $50,000 X
Accident: 14222541 - Dies After Suffering Heat Stroke And Drowns
At approximately 3:00 p.m. on June 19, 2000, Employee #1, age 16, was cleaning up trash in a ditch in preparation for cutting the grass. He was found dead, lying face down in the ditch, which was filled with approximately 8 in. of water. Employee #1 was last seen alive at approximately 2:00 p.m. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as environmental heat exposure followed by asphyxia secondary to drowning.
construction, cleaning, water, ditch, heat stroke, drown, asphyxiated, high temperature
Accident: 109335984 - Killed When Caught Between Tractor Cab And Trailer
On November 12, 1999, Employee #1, of Matson Sand Island Marine Terminal, was trying to couple a Sisu Hustler marine terminal tractor, serial #72EA099AD384, Matson ID #1679, to a Wabash flatbed trailer, serial #1JJF40278RLl210566, loaded with two flat tracks. Employee #1 had been assigned to move the trailer from Stall #27 to the container freight station. No one observed the incident, but he apparently was coupling the tractor to the trailer when he missed the kingpin. The fifth wheel of the tractor was behind the kingpin. Employee #1 was trying to free the fifth wheel from under the kingpin when he became pinned. He died of traumatic asphyxia secondary to being pinned between the cab of the tractor and the trailer. The first coworker on the scene stated that the gear stick was in reverse and the parking break had not been set. Regulations that may have prevented this accident include T8CCR 1917.44 (J): vehicle was left unattended with its engine running and without being secured against movement. This regulation does not have a training requirement. There were no industry-wide procedures in place for coupling and uncoupling. Five operating manuals, the Pacific Maritime Association, and the teamsters union all have similar, but different, steps to do the task. None address how to handle instances where the kingpin is caught behind the fifth wheel.
caught between, tractor trailer, pinned, work rules, asphyxiated, vehicle in gear, tractor--truck, longshoring, brake
Accident: 873612 - Killed When Caught Between Vehicles
Employee #1 was hooking up a semi-trailer at the end of his work shift. He backed the tractor under the trailer and then got out to hook up the air lines for the trailer brakes. When he did this, he apparently did not set the tractor brakes. He also failed to secure all the lines so that air began to bleed off. This caused the trailer safety brake to disengage and the truck apparently started to roll backward. While trying to get to the tractor and set its brakes, Employee #1 became caught between the tractor door and the front of an adjacent trailer. The preliminary cause of death, per the county coroner, was traumatic asphyxia.
trailer truck, tractor trailer, inattention, brake, caught between, asphyxiated, work rules, unmanned, air line, tractor
Accident: 515932 - Killed When Crushed Between Modular Buildings
Employee #1, age 20, was installing modular building units, which he raised and lowered with a Simplex jack. He was walking between two of the units, one of which was raised, when it slipped and fell toward the other unit. Employee #1 was crushed between the modular buildings; he died of asphyxia.
construction, installing, jack, slip, crushed, caught between, asphyxiated, work rules, unsecured, falling object
Accident: 109696252 - Drowns After Fall From Scaffold
Employee #1 was tightening bolts on rafter straps to a boathouse. He was standing on scaffold boards when he fell approximately 9 ft into an inland water area. Employee #1 drowned.
construction, scaffold, fall, water, asphyxiated
Accident: 170122329 - Drowns While Freeing Stuck Bulldozer
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on July 7, 1999, Employee #1 and a coworker unloaded a bulldozer near the edge of Wolf River in Memphis, TN, to pull another bulldozer out of the water. Two other coworkers were at the top of the bank at the highway. Employee #1 attempted to swim out to the stuck dozer with a cable. He went under, came up once and thrashed about for a few seconds, and then went under again. Employee #1 drowned.
drown, work rules, river, bulldozer, earthmoving equip, mired, water, life jacket, asphyxiated
