OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14250617
ROBBINSVILLE CONTRACTING CO., INC.
ALMOND, NC·
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing motor grader
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working with a highway construction crew that was laying piping and grading the road shoulders. The operator of a motor grader had completed a c learing run and was backing his vehicle toward a parking area to allow traffic t o pass. The grader was on the road and the operator's head was turned in the dir ection of the traffic as he maneuvered the grader toward the shoulder near the p arking area. As the grader left the road, its left rear wheel ran over Employee #1. Unaware of what had happened, the operator continued to back up, running ove r the downed worker with the grader's left front wheel. The medical examiner pro nounced Employee #1 dead at the scene.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 558
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 2
- Task assigned
- 1
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