Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Laborer Dies When211 Caught Between Boom Linkage of Skid-Steer Loading Machine, North Carolina, 211 November 5, 1997

摘要

On July 6, 1997, a 25-year-old laborer (the victim) died after being caught in211u001ethe boom linkage of a skid-steer loader. The victim and two other workers were 211u001eclearing brush and tree stumps from a residential site. Using a skid-steer loader 211u001efrom which the side screens had been removed, the victim was gathering brush and 211u001estumps and loading them into a dump truck. While the victim was loading the 211u001etruck, the other workers were working nearby. A resident who was in the area 211u001enoticed that hydraulic fluid was spraying from the left side of the loader and 211u001enotified one of the workers. When the worker went to the machine to check, he 211u001efound the victim seated in the operator's seat with his head caught in the boom 211u001elinkage and hydraulic fluid leaking from the bucket cylinder hydraulic line.