OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #1004761
BUREAU OF HIGHWAYS NYCDOT
NEW YORK, NY·
Event description
Highway worker killed when struck by speeding vehicle
Investigation abstract
At approximately 9:55 a.m. on April 26, 1989, Employee #1, a gasoline roller eng ineer for the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), Bureau of Highways, was wo rking on a roadway in Manhattan when he was struck by a passenger vehicle. He su stained multiple fractures and died two days later at Harlem Hospital. According to a DOT official and witnesses, the passenger vehicle was traveling at a high speed when it struck Employee #1. DOT officials said that the driver was unlicen sed and was operating a stolen vehicle.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- MULTIPLE (19)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- MOTOR VEHICLE (HWY) (29)
- Occupation
- Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators (594)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.