OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #518175
CONSTRUCTION,COLLISION,TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 had just helped a person across a freshly paved strip of roadway. He started walking back toward a paving machine that was approximately 250 ft away at the same time that a dump truck was backing toward it. The truck had a back- up alarm, but Employee #1 did not notice the approaching vehicle. He was killed when the truck backed over him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 43 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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