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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14388334

HEAD,OBSTRUCTED VIEW,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION

Event
HEAD,OBSTRUCTED VIEW,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14388334
Report ID
524700

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

  1. #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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