OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14340749
BACK-UP ALARM,GRADER,HORN,SCRAPER,BRAKE,ALARM,CONSTRUCTION,RUN OVER,BACKING UP
Event description
EMPLOYEE RUN OVER BY SCRAPER
Investigation abstract
On November 17, 1989, a road construction crew consisting of Employee #1, the su o turn around. The scraper operator saw Employee #1 lying on the roadway. The sc raper had no horn, no reverse signal alarm, and no braking system. Moreover, the re was no observer to signal to the scraper operator to make sure that it was sa fe to back up. This scraper had been in operation with these violations for seve ral days. perintendent, and another employee were moving excess dirt to other locations at the same site. Employee #1 was operating a grader, and another employee was ope rating a scraper. Another employee was checking the grade elevation of the surfa ce area. The grader and scraper were approximately 200 ft apart. When the scrape r operator backed out of a one-way street, the scraper backed over and killed Em ployee #1, who was in a squatting position behind the scraper. Employee #1 was r un over with both the front and rear right wheels. The scraper operator did not know that he had backed over Employee #1 until he backed into the intersection t
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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