OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393771
REPAIR,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,DUMP TRUCK,COMMUNICATION,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when struck by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing directly under cement hopper #1, attempting to make adj ustments to the inoperative hopper with a connecting rod. He had his back to a d ump truck that was backing into the hopper to receive cement. The truck struck E mployee #1 and crushed him under its rear tires, killing him. There were several apparent causal factors related to this accident, including employees' inattent ion to moving equipment; failure to heed the back-up warning of the truck; failu re to halt approaching traffic; failure of the hopper operator to sound the horn to signal the truck to stop; and inadequate communication between hopper person nel and truck drivers.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 25 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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