OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14297220
ARNOLD PARRECO & SONS, INC.
ACCOKEEK, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when run over by earth-moving equipment
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had left the operator's seat of his D-8 dozer to check the grade of a roadway. The "pan" operator had just been pushed through the right side of the roadway to cut it down by the dozer. The pan operator made his usual U-turn and dumped his load on the left side of the same roadway. Since the roller was not nearby, the pan operator decided to back over the just-dumped dirt to pack it do wn. The pan operator did not see Employee #1 leaning over to check the grade and backed over him with his 76 in. tall 32 in. wide rear tire. Employee #1 was hos pitalized. The reverse signal alarm was found to be defective.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 855
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 2
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