OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14558001
TAILGATE,CONSTRUCTION,CRUSHED,TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on June 29, 1985, Employee #1 and two coworkers, both by calling and signaling to her, and he also signaled the truck driver to stop. Employee #1 turned toward the back of the truck, but was struck and knocked down by the truck's tailgate. She tried to roll clear, but was run over by the left rear wheels, which crushed her lower legs and body. Employee #1 was killed. The truck's back-up alarms, mirrors, and brakes were all operational. flagmen, were shoveling loose gravel from the edge of a roadbed. The 13 ft wide fill bed was 2 ft below the existing pavement and extended for miles. The two c oworkers left Employee #1 to attend to flagging duties as a ten-wheel dump truck started backing toward the fill bed to dump a load of gravel. Employee #1 was s tanding near the center of the bed, facing away from the backing truck, whose dr iver was using his right mirror to align his truck to the right edge of the fill bed. Another coworker, who was at least 150 ft away, saw the truck backing up a nd that Employee #1 was not moving out of the way. He tried to warn Employee #1
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 F
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 594
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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