OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686139
TRACTOR TRAILER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION,CONSTRUCTION,FLAGMAN,CRUSHED,TRUCK,RUN OVER
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a flagperson, was routing one-lane traffic around a trenching opera tion. He left his flag station and walked to the west center of the street with his back to the traffic and to a Kenworth tractor trailer truck loaded with sand , that was backing into the work area to dump the sand. The truck driver, not se eing Employee #1, backed over him and crushed him to death. At the time of the a ccident, the truck's back-up alarm was working.
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 427
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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#981 Degree 0 Age 0
- Nature of injury
- 0
- Part of body
- 0
- Event type
- 0
- Source
- 0
- Occupation code
- 0
- Human factor
- 0
- Environmental factor
- 0
- Task assigned
- 0
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