OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14380059
SURVEYOR,WORK RULES,DUMP TRUCK,RUN OVER,INATTENTION
Event description
Surveyor killed when struck by dump truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was engaged in surveying layout work. He knelt down to hammer a refe rence point nail in the asphalt directly in front of a tandem axle dump truck th at was parked with its engine running. After the surveyor had kneeled down, the driver returned from the rear of the truck and got into the cab. He made radio c ontact with his office, looked in his rear view mirror, looked to the left and r ight and ahead, let off the brake, and proceeded forward. The dump truck rolled over Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 30 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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