Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14386148

CENTRAL BLACK TOP CO. INC.

Event
WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, EARTHMOVING EQUIP, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, UNMANNED
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#100126770
Employer profile
CENTRAL BLACK TOP CO. INC.
Summary number
14386148
Report ID
521700

Event description

Employee killed when crushed by road widener

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 had delivered a piece of construction equipment known as a road wide ner to a job site and then parked it. When he dismounted, the road widener began to roll, crushing him against a chain-link fence. Employee #1 was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 58 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    19
    Event type
    2
    Source
    30
    Occupation code
    804
    Human factor
    9
    Environmental factor
    4
    Task assigned
    1

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