OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14457055
HIGHWAY,VEHICLE,WORK RULES,RIDING ON EQUIPMENT,TRUCK,FALL,BACKING UP,UNSTABLE POSITION
Event description
Employee killed in fall from moving van
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working from a moving van, picking up 36 in. high traffic marker cones from a construction site on an interstate highway. A coworker was driving the Chevrolet van, license plate #EX68263, in reverse, using rearview mirrors t o see the construction site and the cones. Employee #1, a prison inmate employed under cooperative agreement by the Utah DOT, fell from the moving vehicle and w as killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 69
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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