During the summer of 2003, a 28-year-old employee for a satellite TV company was killed while preparing a vehicle for transport. He was towing an older pickup truck behind his company truck, using a tilt-bed tow dolly. He had already towed the vehicle for a short distance and needed to make final preparations for highway travel. He had just visited and interviewed a man about a job with his company. He then drove to the man's residence to borrow some tools to make the necessary changes to the truck-in-tow. When he removed the last bolt attaching the driveshaft to the differential, the truck immediately rolled backwards down the ramp and pinned him in the chest area to the ground causing asphyxiation. The other man tried unsuccessfully to push the truck back up the ramp, then ran to his garage to get a floor jack while his wife called 911. He was unable to raise the truck off the victim, and had to wait for rescue to arrive, which took only five minutes. The rescue crew used the Jaws of Life and cribbing to raise the vehicle off the man, but he was declared dead when taken to a helicopter site.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Iowa: Satellite TV Company Manager Dies While Preparing Pickup Truck for Transport
2004
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
Environmental Health & Safety , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Environmental & Occupational Factors , Occupational safety and health , Transporting motor vehicles , Pickup truck , Investigation , Recommendations , Towing , Cause of death , Safety training , Satellite TV Company