OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14337216
HIGHWAY,SPEEDING,CONSTRUCTION,DWI,INTOXICATED,AUTOMOBILE,STRUCK BY,ROAD PAVING
Event description
Employee killed, others injured when struck by automobile
Investigation abstract
Employees #1 through #6 were installing rubber compression seals into expansion most 2 1/2 times the legal limit. Employee #1 was killed and Employees #2, #3. # 5 and #6, were hospitalized. joints in the concrete pavement of an interstate highway. Another two-lane road merged into the highway's second inside lane, leaving two other lanes blocked fr om traffic. Traffic control devices such as warning signs, lighted arrow boards, and barricades controlled the traffic flow and protected the employees. A vehic le entered the on ramp at a high speed, struck several barricades, hit a parked pickup truck that was being used as an extra safety precaution, hit two employee s, and then rolled over several times before hitting the inside median barrier w all. The driver was killed; his blood test indicated a blood alcohol level of al
Victims (6)
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#2 Hospitalized Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#3 Hospitalized Age 27 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#4 Non-hospitalized injury Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 9
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#5 Hospitalized Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 16
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
-
#6 Hospitalized Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 31
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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