OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388136
OBSTRUCTED VIEW,OBSTRUCTED REAR VIEW,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking out of the batch house office of a ready mix concrete pl ant to go to his concrete truck at the same time that a 5-ton dump truck was bac king up to the loading station for a load of stone. Employee #1 was in the obstr ucted view area behind the backing dump truck and was looking away to check onco ming street traffic. Employee #1 was struck by the dump truck, knocked to the gr ound, run over and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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