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5854 RED CHERRY LN, MINNETONKA, MN 55345
Standard 19260602 A02 I
Employee killed when crushed by overturned bulldozer
At 2:22 p.m., on September 28, 1992, Employee #1 was unloading a Komatsu D31A-16 Tiltdozer from a Load King lowboy. The truck tractor and trailer were parked ac ross a roadway, which was sloped at a 7 percent grade. Employee #1 climbed on bo ard the Tiltdozer and started to back it off the lowboy. But the dozer slid side ways off the trailer and landed on its left side. Employee #1 tried to jump clea r of the sliding Tiltdozer, but was crushed and killed by its rollover protectiv e structure (ROPS). The Komatsu Tiltdozer had no seat belt.
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