Doyle Peeks is a handicapped old man living in Texas. He should have enjoyed a healthy and energetic body if not for that tragedy. It is the destroying nightmare haunting him all these year, but now he chose to tell it to the readers, especially to the crane operators, to keep them from repeating what he did. The following is what Doyle said about his tragedy.
The accident happened on October 6, 1988 on the shoreline of Lake Ray Hubbard near Dallas, Texas. At that time, I was a crane operator with nearly thirty-five years of operating experience. I just got too confident. I thought I could go racing down a slopped embankment without rolling the machine. I had always thought that if a machine ever started to roll that I could hang on to something and not be thrown off the machine. Boy, was I ever wrong. It happened so fast, I was on the ground before I knew what was happening. Prior to falling off of the machine, I grabbed at everything I could and couldn’t find a thing to hold on to.
The roll-over protection landed on my left knee and pinned me down. It took an hour and forty-five minutes to get another machine to the site to lift it off of me. Diesel was running under me, and I was losing blood fast. My left arm was broken in five places and all but mangled. I now have a steel plate in it holding the five breaks together. I lost about fifty percent use of the arm. Thank God, I can still pull control levers with it.
Am I now paranoid about seat belts? You bet. When I mount a piece of rubber tired equipment now, the first thing I do is fasten the seat belt. I pulled a dumb, stupid stunt, but I will not be fool enough to do it again.
After reading his story, I think we can get at least two lessons from Doyle Peeks. To begin with, crane operators, young or old, experienced or not, fasten that seat belt. In addition, as for the manufacturers, they should add a steel bar, heavy expanded metal or pipe across each side of the small loader/backhoes which could prevent an operator from falling or being thrown off of the machine.
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