OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388334
HEAD,OBSTRUCTED 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 control room batch house office of an asphalt plant to go check the asphalt temperature in a dump truck. At the same time, an other dump truck was backing up to a loading station to receive a load of asphal t. The dump truck struck, then ran over, Employee #1, who was in the driver's bl ind spot. His attention was apparently focused on the truck he was going to chec k. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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