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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #518175

CONSTRUCTION,COLLISION,TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION

Event
CONSTRUCTION,COLLISION,TRUCK,DUMP TRUCK,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
518175
Report ID
931800

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

  1. #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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