Iowa FACE Fatality Summaries: 2007
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(Preliminary coding per 2007 NAICS, 2000 SOC, and 2007 ICD-10 subject to official verification.) (Code (SOC) is occupation at time of fatal incident, which may differ from usual occupation.)
Summary Case Report: A 54-year-old delivery man fell backward 9-ft to the cement floor below a platform pallet raised by a forklift in the rack storage area of a warehouse.
Summary Case Report: A male truckdriver, age 62, exited the warehouse office and was struck by a refrigerator in a carton on a forklift traveling forward past the office toward the truck loading dock.
Summary Case Report: A 62-year-old male, contract dog hauler/driver of a pickup towing a trailer of dogs to a race track, ran off the interstate and struck an I-beam sign post.
Summary Case Report: Assisting with snow removal on a hospital roof helipad, a 32-year-old operator backed his small tractor with front snow blade and rear salt/sand distributor off the edge of the roof, beyond the safety net, and fell 20-ft with the tractor to the ground.
Summary Case Report: A 32-year-old man fell to the top of an adjacent silo at a grain processing facility when the grain tube atop the taller silo was hoisted free by a crane, then swung into his work platform.
Summary Case Report: A 50-year-old unbelted truck driver was crushed in the cab of his northbound semi which was struck broadside on the driver door by a two-engine (no railcars) train.
Summary Case Report: A 51-year-old farmer working for his parents was crushed between the load backrest of the forklift attachment and the frame of the skid steer while standing on the ground outside the front right corner of the operator's station.
Summary Case Report: Manager of outside sales, age 54, returning from a sales call, lost control of his southbound pickup truck on the interstate, crossed the median, then collided with a northbound dump truck and two additional vehicles.
Summary Case Report: A 45-year-old education manager who previously injured her knee in a fall on stairs at work was discovered unresponsive at work three days later and succumbed to complications.
Summary Case Report: A restrained, city police officer, age 35, swerved on a divided 4-lane highway, hit a guardrail, then flipped upside down en route to an out-of-town training program.
Summary Case Report: A 47-year-old independent parcel delivery contractor slipped entering his running van, was run over trying to stop it as it moved in reverse, and succumbed to complications 12 days later.
Summary Case Report: A small pickup truck with its male 41-year-old restrained driver was passing to the right of another southbound vehicle in the inside lane on a 4-lane roadway when it skidded out of control and was broadsided on the passenger door by a loaded, northbound semi.
Summary Case Report: A female, age 31, head grower for a family-owned greenhouse died along with two co-workers and the pilot of a twin-engine plane that crashed short of the runway in snow and strong wind conditions.
Summary Case Report: A male sales manager, age 43, for a family-owned greenhouse died along with two co-workers and the pilot of a twin-engine plane that crashed short of the runway in snow and strong wind conditions.
Summary Case Report: A commercial pilot, age 51, died along with three passengers when the twin-engine propeller-driven plane he piloted crashed short of the runway in snow and strong wind conditions.
Summary Case Report: A vice president, age 44, for her family-owned greenhouse died along with two co-workers and the hired pilot when the company-owned twin-engine propeller plane crashed short of the runway in snow and strong wind conditions.
Summary Case Report: A 57-year-old municipal employee using a chainsaw to clear timber along a tree-lined creek was stuck by and pinned under a limb that pivoted unexpectedly as he worked to fell the tree.
Summary Case Report: A 34-year-old lineman tethered to his work platform fell with it 90-ft to the truck deck when the upper section of the extendable boom retracted and the basket separated from it during electric transmission line repair work.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 61, was entangled for several hours in a 12-inch diameter auger at the local feed mill he owned and operated.
Summary Case Report: A 40-year-old cleaning service worker was overcome by products of combustion from a snowblower engine running inside the rear of his station wagon.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 75, was using a front-end loader on his cabless tractor without a rollover protective structure to push limbs that had fallen into his field back to the creek bank, when the bank gave way and the tractor overturned upside down in the creek.
Summary Case Report: A 54-year-old marina manager drowned inside an excavator that sank on its cab door side when the barge he was loading it onto nose-dived as he drove the excavator forward on ramps from shore.
Summary Case Report: A 37-year old, female, Hispanic employee of a janitorial service was stabbed at work.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 69, was working on a tractor when it started in gear and moved forward running over and dragging him 75-ft.
Summary Case Report: A 78-year-old farmer was caught between disks when the wing of a disk cultivator came down on him.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 81, mowing hay in a field was run over by the mower conditioner after he exited the tractor to unplug it and was run over when the mower conditioner moved forward.
Summary Case Report: A male 50-year-old foreman at a commercial building site, who leaned between the frame and the fork attachment's load backrest to instruct the skid steer operator, was crushed when the fork attachment tilted.
Summary Case Report: A man, age 68, was crushed underneath a mobile home his crew was moving when it fell from a jack as he fixed its flat tire along the shoulder of a gravel road.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 58, was ejected from his cabless tractor when it was rear-ended by an SUV well after dark.
Summary Case Report: The unbelted 61-year-old driver of a semi was ejected when an eastbound semi pulled out at a rural intersection, striking the side of his northbound truck causing it to overturn.
Summary Case Report: A 69-year-old farmer was unloading a tricycle-style tractor without cab or overturn protection that had been modified (seat, steering control, and loader facing rearward) when it overturned off the semi trailer's ramps, pinning him underneath.
Summary Case Report: A truck driver, age 74, died upside down in the crushed cab of his semi when the rear duals of his semi-trailer went off the sharp edge of the roadway and the truck overturned.
Summary Case Report: A 43-year-old male construction laborer died from complications of heat stress.
Summary Case Report: The owner of an automobile shop, age 42, was hanged by a cable around his neck attached to an overhead hoist.
Summary Case Report: A 52-year-old employment agency laborer was crushed when frozen meat products packaged in 2000 pound pallets, stacked 3 to 4 pallets high in a warehouse, fell on him.
Summary Case Report: The unrestrained driver, age 40, of a westbound delivery truck was ejected when his truck was broadsided on the passenger door by a southbound semi at an uncontrolled intersection.
Summary Case Report: A 30-year-old unrestrained male passenger in a company pick-up truck with the passenger airbag switched off died when the pickup truck crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a straight truck.
Summary Case Report: A 42-year-old owner of a dog breeding establishment was pinned under the wheel of a small, old tractor with a belly-mount mower that tipped over while he was mowing a steep portion of roadside ditch.
Summary Case Report: The pilot, age 60, of a single-engine crop-dusting plane in an unwitnessed crash into a grassy field was found in the aircraft with his harness on and helmet off.
Summary Case Report: A contract grain semi with male driver, age 59, headed eastbound collided with a westbound gravel semi making a left turn, went off the road, overturned ejecting the driver and burst into flames.
Summary Case Report: A 54-year-old female grabbed the upside handhold on the top floor, went up over the head pulley of the belt manlift at a grain processing facility, then fell 8 floors.
Summary Case Report: A male wheel loader operator, age 38, mixing aggregate in two hoppers above a belt conveyor climbed the ladder on one hopper, used a shovel to push material down from its side walls, and was subsequently discovered wedged in the hopper's bottom opening.
Summary Case Report: A 76-year-old farmer was operating a wide front axle tractor with front-end loader, no cab or rollover protection, moving large round bales when the tractor he operated overturned down a creek bank along the curved access way into the barn.
Summary Case Report: A fuel transport truck driver, age 57, unloaded ethanol into a railcar. When he began loading gasoline from another railcar on adjacent tracks, fuel vapors ignited.
Summary Case Report: A loaded cement mix hopper truck with restrained 60-year-old male driver, broadsided a loaded railcar in a train which had finished switching operations at a crossing that had no lights or railguard.
Summary Case Report: A 45-year-old farmer was attacked in his pasture by a bull that had been bottle-fed and raised by family members.
Summary Case Report: A county emergency manager, age 57, whose truck collided with a utility pole that had blown down across the roadway, succumbed to his injuries 2 months later.
Summary Case Report: A 44-year-old inspector at a meat processing facility died when an unlocked valve for a new, expanded anhydrous ammonia piping system was opened.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 45, was strangled by a nylon rope around his neck tethered to a round bale shredder in the barn.
Summary Case Report: Prolonged extrication was required for a male 58-year-old driver of a semi-truck tractor without trailer that braked aggressively, went out of control, and overturned onto its top in the ditch.
Summary Case Report: A 41-year-old independent tree trimming contractor for a city fell 30-feet to the ground when the limb he was cutting fell on the work platform of his trailer-mounted, articulated, extendable-reach boom.
Summary Case Report: An Hispanic member of a contract labor crew, age 16, was an unrestrained male passenger in the middle of the middle seat of a van with 5 other occupants, including 1 other passenger who died, when the van overturned off a sharp curve in the roadway.
Summary Case Report: An Hispanic male, age 22, in a contract labor crew was a passenger seated behind the driver in the middle seat of a van with 5 other occupants, including 1 other passenger who died, when the van overturned off a sharp curve in the roadway.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 62, was crushed by his tractor (without cab or overturn protection) towing a grain wagon full of soybeans when they overturned after lose of traction and speed control going downhill on a path across a hay field.
Summary Case Report: A farmer was towing two trailers for large bales in tandem behind a tractor while his 80-year-old father drove a trailing tractor with its loader bucket lifting under the rear of the disabled second trailer which shifted in a turn, causing the father's tractor to overturn upside down.
Summary Case Report: An eastbound business van driven by a belted 26-year-old male on the interstate went onto the right shoulder, over-corrected, then spun across the median into the path of an oncoming semi, which broadsided the van on its driver side door.
Summary Case Report: A 39-year-old male sustained multiple gunshot wounds while at work at a gasoline station store.
Summary Case Report: The unrestrained driver, age 51, of a semi hauling a trailer loaded with sand was crushed inside the tractor cab when his semi went off the side of the road and overturned onto its top.
Summary Case Report: A 44-year-old Hispanic employee of a contract salvage company was using a cutting torch to dismantle a railroad refrigerator box car when the remaining long wall of the box car fell on him.
Summary Case Report: A southbound auto being shuttled between dealerships by a belted 77-year-old driver crossed the centerline and ran head-on into a northbound dump truck that steered right before collision.
Summary Case Report: A 26-year-old school employee experienced a witnessed seizure after advising colleagues about his excess medication consumption.
Summary Case Report: A female co-driver, age 47, of a semi with trailer became ill, exited sleeper of truck tractor before it stopped, and was run over by the semi's dual wheels.
Summary Case Report: A 16-year old was helping her father load seed into a grain drill in the field when he drove the tractor forward, and she was run over by the drill attached to it.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 82, who slipped or misstepped after climbing the ladder on the side of his grain bin to close the hatch in the roof, fell 40-feet to the concrete slab on the ground.
Summary Case Report: A shotgun was found in a remote barn beside a 50-year-old male farmer who was shot by the gun.
Summary Case Report: A 64-year-old farmer was crushed under the center of the soybean header on his combine when it fell from the single jack supporting it.
Summary Case Report: A hired farm worker, age 15, was helping herd cattle in a rough pasture when he overturned the farm owner's ATV.
Summary Case Report: A 51-year-old male assisting with harvest parked his loaded semi on a steep incline and was crushed between its cab and a nearby pickup truck when he attempted to reboard the semi as it began to roll rearward.
Summary Case Report: A southbound garage door installation truck driven by a 52-year-old male was struck by a vehicle that failed to stop at a controlled intersection, then collided head-on with a northbound truck.
Summary Case Report: A home healthcare provider, age 70, tripped and fractured her leg on the walkway entering a patient's residence and died of complications in longterm care 4 weeks later.
Summary Case Report: A 54-year-old truck driver was crushed by the butt of a log that swung from the top of his semi-trailer load of logs when he released the load binder chain.
Summary Case Report: The unrestrained, 40-year-old, male driver of an eastbound dump truck loaded with sand was crushed in the cab when it turned north across the westbound lane at a highway on-ramp and collided with a bridge pillar.
Summary Case Report: A 62-year-old farmer was struck by the spring-loaded frame for the hinged wing extension on his tandem disk when he disconnected the frame from the wing extension disk gang.
Summary Case Report: The restrained male driver, age 50, of a pickup truck hauling siding westbound on the interstate lost control, crossed the median, then collided with the left rear duals of an oncoming semi-truck trailer.
Summary Case Report: A 45-year-old, independent tree contractor was climbing a walnut tree 25 feet up when the limb he cut sprang back and knocked him from the bucket of his bucket truck to the ground.
Summary Case Report: A male barge worker, age 35, slipped on deck ice while securing the barge as it passed through the lock, fell overboard and was crushed between the barge and lock wall.
Summary Case Report: An electric transmission line construction worker, age 54, was pinned to the bucket of his bucket truck by the guy wire attached to the top of a pole when the guy wire came loose from its anchor and the top of the pole broke off.
Summary Case Report: A 41-year-old, male semi driver, along the left side of his disabled truck on the right shoulder of the eastbound interstate, was struck by the right rear of a passing eastbound semi-truck trailer.
Summary Case Report: An eastbound semi with unrestrained 59-year-old male driver broadsided the trailer of a northbound semi that pulled forward from a stop sign at an intersection of major highways.
Summary Case Report: A belted, 27-year-old feed salesman's eastbound auto was broadsided on the driver side by a southbound train at a gravel road and track crossing without signal lights near a curve in the tracks.
Summary Case Report: A farmer, age 60, was crushed under a large round cornstalk bale held endwise in a set of forks chained to the loader bucket when the bale spilled out of the raised loader as he shuttled the cabless tractor without overturn protection back and forth.
Summary Case Report: A construction company pickup eastbound with restrained 19-year-old driver crossed the centerline of the highway and collided head-on with an oncoming pickup truck towing a 5th wheel travel trailer.
Summary Case Report: A male auto salvage worker, age 51, walking beside a car hoisted by a chain attached to the bucket of a moving front-end wheel loader was crushed under the car fell.
Summary Case Report: A furniture delivery truck with its 24-year-old male driver and one passenger went off a county road, hit a cement culvert, and burst into flames.
Summary Case Report: A 29-year-old male was the sole passenger in a furniture delivery truck that went off a county road, hit a cement culvert, and burst into flames.
Summary Case Report: A male farmworker, age 29, was shot while walking in a pasture by a high-powered rifle fired from an abandoned house.
Summary Case Report: A 69-year-old farmer was crushed under a rotary cutter that lowered on him.
Summary Case Report: A southbound pickup truck driven by an independent building contractor, age 61, towing a trailer with a skid steer onboard broadsided a westbound semi-truck trailer loaded with hogs pulling from a stop sign across four traffic lanes.
Summary Case Report: A 46-year-old employee on the farm of his family's seed corn business was crushed while replacing the starter on his van in their garage over noon hour when he disconnected the driveshaft and the van moved rearward off the front wheel ramps.
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