Iowa FACE Fatality Summaries: 2006
(Preliminary coding per 2007 NAICS, 2000 SOC, and 2007 ICD-10 subject to official verification.)
Summary Case Report: A 47-year-old driver of a ready mix concrete delivery truck was taken to the hospital and subsequently died of heart failure after his truck exited the interstate to the right, went off the left shoulder of the exit ramp, and overturned.
Summary Case Report: A 64-year-old construction dump truck driver exited the cab, slipped and fell in partially frozen mud, striking the back of his head, was treated for traumatic brain injury and then two weeks later died of respiratory complications following extended immobilization.
Summary Case Report: A 41-year-old farmer was thrown from a tractor built in 1950 when his tractor's left brake locked and it overturned going downhill on a public, gravel roadway.
Summary Case Report: A 46-year-old mechanic, who was performing maintenance alone on his transmission line installation crew's truck, drove it forward onto a slightly-elevated concrete slab in an open building at local fairgrounds and was crushed under its rear axle when the pickup rolled rearward off the edge of the concrete slab.
Summary Case Report: A 39-year-old driver died when his trucking firm semi and cargo burned after it collided head-on with an oncoming semi-truck that crossed the median between sides of the interstate highway.
Summary Case Report: The 54-year-old wife of a farmer was backed over while walking toward the barn as the farmer backed a feed truck toward the barn.
Summary Case Report: A 65-year-old, male, farmer was mauled by a 2 1/2-year-old dairy bull while walking alone among the herd to round up cows from the open feedlot and head them toward the parlor for evening milking. Full report with photos
Summary Case Report: 63-year-old, male farmer herding cows across a concrete slab toward the parlor for their morning milking was pinned against a fence and stomped on the concrete by a rented 2 1/2-year-old dairy bull running with the herd.
Summary Case Report: A 43-year-old excavation business owner-operator was buried when an additional portion of an unshored trench for a municipal sewer line caved in on him as he worked to rescue a partially buried coworker.
Summary Case Report: An 81-year-old truck driver died when his semi-truck loaded with shelled corn failed to negotiate a curve, went off the side of the road, struck a rock embankment, and overturned.
Summary Case Report: A 51-year-old man, wearing a fall protection harness while installing an antenna on top of a water tower with his crew, fell 40-feet to an internal landing as the crew fed cable for the antenna down the mechanical core of the water tower.
Summary Case Report: A 46-year-old repairman, who was escorted to the roof of a distribution company building and left alone to work on an air conditioning unit, fell through a translucent section of corrugated roofing to the concrete floor 40-feet below.
Summary Case Report: A 37-year-old construction worker fell, with the forms to which his fall protection harness was attached, onto rocks 35-feet below when the forms he was setting for the pathway to the drain tower of a silt-settling came loose and fell.
Summary Case Report: A 50-year-old farmer was crushed underneath his tractor when it ran off the side of a public, gravel road on which it was towing a flatbed wagon.
Summary Case Report: A 59-year-old maintenance employee for a mobile home park was pinned underneath his lawn tractor when it went over a landscape retaining wall.
Summary Case Report:A 70-year-old farmer died in an open operator station tractor when a 2000 pound bale rolled rearward out of the front-end loader onto him.
Summary Case Report: A semi-truck headed east changed lanes and collided with an adjacent eastbound motor vehicle, overturned, crashed, and burned, killing the 58-year-old, male truck driver.
Summary Case Report: The 57-year-old, male, owner-operator of a high tower maintenance company fell 1100 feet from a cable hoist with two other workers who were also using it as a lift to access and maintain lighting near the top of a 1500-foot television tower when it collapsed.
Summary Case Report: A male employee for a high tower maintenance company, age 27, fell 1100-feet from a cable hoist with two other workers who were also using it as a lift to access and maintain lighting near the top of 1500-foot television tower when it collapsed.
Summary Case Report: A male worker for a tower maintenance company, age 19, fell 1100-feet from the cable hoist with two other workers who were also using it as a lift to access and maintain lighting near the top of 1500-foot television tower when it collapsed.
Summary Case Report: The 26-year-old male driver of a lumber company straight truck failed to stop at an intersection with highway and was broadsided on his truck's driver's side by a semi-truck, partially ejected and pinned under his straight truck.
Summary Case Report: A male munitions factory production worker, age 48, was killed along with a co-worker in an explosion while working with bonded plastic explosives for missile warheads.
Summary Case Report: A 24-year-old engineer at a munitions factory was killed along with his co-worker in an explosion while working with bonded plastic explosives for missile warheads.
Summary Case Report: A 61-year-old, male driver of a loaded semi that went through a stop sign at a rural intersection with a main highway, died in the collision with another semi that caused both semi-trucks to be forced off the road and overturn.
Summary Case Report: A 48-year-old man was the driver of a loaded semi-truck hit broadside by another semi that went through a stop sign at a rural intersection causing both semi-trucks to leave the roadway and overturn.
Summary Case Report: A 62-year-old race car driver died when his 1960's era sprint car tangled wheels with another sprint car, collided, and flipped several times during a raceway exhibition.
Summary Case Report:A 68-year-old farmer, while driving on a gravel road, was ejected through his tractor's front window when the tractor overturned and broke into multiple pieces after being struck by the engine of a train at a railroad crossing.
Summary Case Report:A 61-year-old farmer was pinned under his old, small, tri-cycle front axle tractor with belly-mounted mower when it overturned while he was mowing a slope around buildings on the farmstead.
Summary Case Report: A 75-year-old farmer was pulled off and run over by the baler he was operating when the hitch to the horse-drawn baler failed, the horses continued forward, and the baler rolled forward over him.
Summary Case Report:A 27-year-old operator of a self-propelled sprayer, doing custom chemical application work for a farm service, died when his sprayer was struck by the engine of a train at a railroad crossing near the edge of town.
Summary Case Report: A 38-year-old farmer was pitched from his tractor and run over while towing a rotary cutter on a rough slope in a pasture with scattered, large rocks on it.
Summary Case Report: A 53-year-old vacuum form machine operator was crushed in the machine when it cycled as he was retooling the machine.
Summary Case Report: A 50-year-old, self-employed photographer died in a helicopter crash when the helicopter struck an overhead electrical power line while he was taking aerial footage for a motion picture.
Summary Case Report: A 70-year-old farmer was using a narrow front-axle tractor built 1954-6 with a front-end loader to move dirt on a slope in farmstead when the tractor overturned, pinning him underneath.
Summary Case Report: A 46-year-old farmer was using a sickle bar mower mounted on an old, narrow front axle tractor, built 1960-67, to maintain a roadside ditch when the tractor-mower combination overturned pinning him underneath.
Summary Case Report: A 73-year-old farmer was pinned under his 1974 model tractor with narrow front axle and a front-end loader installed when it overturned on a slope as he was positioning it alongside a hog confinement building on the his son's farmstead.
Summary Case Report: A 56-year-old male farmer died of pneumonia associated with an anhydrous ammonia over-exposure from a year earlier.
Summary Case Report:A 42-year-old male pilot in co-pilot position died along with the pilot when their chartered, twin-engine turbo jet overshot the runway in inclement weather and crashed.
Summary Case Report: A 62-year-old pilot in pilot's position died along with his co-pilot when their chartered, twin-engine turbo jet overshot the runway in inclement weather and crashed.
Summary Case Report: A 66-year-old farmer was operating his tractor, with wide front axle and a front-end loader installed, raking grass in a roadside ditch when the tractor's rear wheel dropped into the area near a culvert and the tractor overturned.
Summary Case Report: A 55-year-old male farmer was backing a wide front-axle tractor, built 1968-72, westbound with its front-end loader bucket lowered to level gravel along the south shoulder of the roadway when the tractor's right rear wheel went off the road's edge and the tractor overturned.
Summary Case Report: A 42-year-old foreman for an electrical maintenance contractor was electrocuted while he worked with a coworker to replace a fan in a high voltage transformer.
Summary Case Report: A 28-year-old man was framing the second story of a new house when he fell 25-feet through the opening for the stairway to the concrete floor of the basement.
Summary Case Report: A 68-year-old farm chemical application service employee was run over while he was refilling the water tank on a self-propelled sprayer when its operator drove the sprayer forward.
Summary Case Report: A 33-year-old, male driver died in a sprint car that flipped and crashed into a wall during a race at the raceway.
Summary Case Report: A 49-year-old county road maintenance worker was electrocuted while he was installing a roadside sign when the truck's boom with posthole auger attachment was raised into an overhead electrical power line.
Summary Case Report: A 56-year-old construction laborer was in a 5-foot deep trench installing a water line along the foundation of an old barn that was no longer present when a lengthy section of the foundation caved into the trench pinning him against the opposite side of the trench.
Summary Case Report: A 40-year-old male driver of a garbage truck that failed to stop for a stop sign at an intersection, was ejected and landed underneath the chassis of a tandem axle dump truck, which also tipped over after it collided with the garbage truck.
Summary Case Report: A 33-year-old labor contractor employee and his co-worker were ejected from labor contractor's van driven by a third coworker and were killed when the van went off the interstate, struck a tree, and overturned in rainy conditions as they returned from work at a food processing facility.
Summary Case Report: A 30-year-old labor contractor employee and his co-worker were ejected from contractor's van driven by a third coworker and were killed when it went off the interstate, struck a tree, and overturned in rainy conditions as they returned from work at a food processing facility.
Summary Case Report: A 52-year-old anesthesiologist died alone from mixed drug poisoning administered intravenously in the staff lounge while he was on call at the hospital.
Summary Case Report: A 51-year-old owner-operator of a masonry company tuck pointing a school building leaned over the edge and fell 20-feet from the entry way roof when its parapet gave way during inspection.
Summary Case Report: A 57-year-old electric utility crew foreman died when he was struck by the upper portion of a wooden pole that broke free as the pole was being pulled from the ground by a truck-mounted derrick with a cable cinch around pole.
Summary Case Report: A 47-year-old truck driver died when his loaded semi collided with an interstate bridge guardrail and caught fire.
Summary Case Report: A 34-year-old truck driver died when his semi-truck collided with an interstate bridge guardrail and caught fire.
Summary Case Report:A 62-year-old Department of Transportation worker was found in the maintenance shop hanging from a hoist by a lift strap around his neck.
Summary Case Report: A 59-year-old teacher, who tipped sideways on his moped/scooter in his driveway on the way to school, collapsed and struck his head in classroom six hours later.
Summary Case Report: A 56-year-old retail cashier returning to her home store from an assignment at a sister store pulled from a stop sign at the head of an exit ramp from the interstate into the path of pickup that crashed into her driver side door area at highway speed.
Summary Case Report: A 54-year-old male farmer performing repair work while lying on the ground under a combine corn-harvesting header was crushed under its snouts when the corn head fell.
Summary Case Report: A 68-year-old male dump truck driver, towing a wagon back to the farm, was driving erratically on the roadway, went into roadside ditch, and struck a tree.
Summary Case Report: A 59-year-old farmer, who fell 10-feet from a standing position on top of a grain truck and landed on his right side on the ground, later died in the hospital from pulmonary contusions.
Summary Case Report: A 66-year-old operator of a lake dredge for a city drowned after he was pulled into rough, cold waters while attempting to tie a tug, captained by a coworker, to his dredge in high winds.
Summary Case Report: An 85-year-old farmer who had exited the passenger side, went behind the pick-up driven by his wife towing an empty wagon off the elevator scale, was run over by both right wheels of wagon and later died in the hospital of multiple hip, chest, and skull fractures.
Summary Case Report: A 60-year-old farmer doing chores in his pasture died of mechanical asphyxiation after being run over while repairing a 4-wheel compact utility hauler, which was found running in gear with the front of its empty cargo box raised.
Summary Case Report: A 77-year-old truck driver died of complications after he fell 10-feet fall from the top of a liquid fertilizer truck to the concrete below when the cable for the catwalk failed.
Summary Case Report: The 67-year-old resident manager of hotel died of abdominal bleeding after he fell in the bathroom of his apartment adjoining the hotel front desk area.
Summary Case Report: A 45-year-old electrician died in the hospital two days after suffering burns in an electric arc flash while he was replacing breakers and switches for pump motors at a grain processing facility.
Summary Case Report: A 24-year-old apprentice electrician for an electrical contractor was electrocuted when he contacted the emergency lighting circuit while working on permanent overhead lighting from a scissor lift inside the building for a new retail store.
Summary Case Report: A 67-year-old maintenance worker, replacing screens from a ladder to the second story of a three story apartment building, fell a total of 25-feet to the first story roof, then to the concrete surface at ground level.
Summary Case Report: A 25-year-old laborer for a grain elevator suffocated when he was buried by grain flowing into the cavity created while vacuuming a crusted layer from the top of the corn in a flat storage building.
Summary Case Report: The 46-year-old, male driver of a cement pumper truck died from head trauma incurred in a collision with a self-propelled agricultural sprayer that failed to yield at a rural intersection.
Summary Case Report: A 28-year-old butcher died alone from a small caliber rifle bullet wound to his head in a family-run meat processing enterprise facility.
Summary Case Report: A 69-year-old bartender suffered a hip fracture attempting to intervene in an altercation at the bar and later died from heart failure and complications during his hip repair procedures.
Summary Case Report: A 21-year-old man operating a small boat in windy conditions, delivering tools and supplies to repair piers of a railroad bridge, fell from the boat into the cold river water.
Summary Case Report: A 59-year-old truck driver was found dead beside his semi-truck with its engine running along a highway entrance ramp, a shotgun at his feet, and a wound to his head through his mouth.
Summary Case Report: A 48-year-old excavating company owner-manager was backed over at a worksite by an elevating scraper operated by his company employee.
Summary Case Report:A 62-year-old male Department of Transportation inspector crossed behind, and was run over by, the right rear dual wheels of a tandem axle cement truck as it was backed toward a rinse area on a closed exit ramp of the interstate.
Summary Case Report: A 39-year-old operator for a crane rental company, in the cab of a mobile crane, was crushed against an electrical transformer box when the crane tipped onto its side as he was positioning and holding a large aggregate hopper.
Summary Case Report: A 57-year-old railroad worker riding on the side of a railcar died from open head trauma when he was crushed against a stationary railcar on an adjacent set of tracks in the switchyard. |