Fatality · MSHA Record #220202480023
Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver
August 21, 2020
at 7:35 AM
Pocahontas County, IA
Classification
MACHINERY
Type
Struck by falling object
Investigator narrative
Customer driver was found unresponsive outside the customer's truck. Cause of death is unknown.
Final MSHA investigation
On August 21, 2020, Dennis A. Dose, a 69 year-old tractor-trailer driver with ten years of professional over-the-road driving experience, sustained fatal head injuries while he was deploying the tarp system on his fifth-wheel side-dump trailer. After activating the automatic tarp deployment system, Dose was walking beside the trailer when the tarp system drive chain came off the sprockets. This caused the tarp roll tube to deploy uncontrolled and strike him in the head.
Findings from MSHA's final investigation report, which supersedes the preliminary narrative above.
Record details
- Activity at time of incident
- Walking, Running
- Subunit / location
- STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
- Accident type
- Struck by falling object
- Source of injury
- METAL,(Not Elsewhere Classified)(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- Nature of injury
- UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
- Body part affected
- HEAD,NEC
- Degree of injury
- FATALITY
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Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) · Document 220202480023 · Mine ID 1302188
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