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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #686139

TRACTOR TRAILER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION,CONSTRUCTION,FLAGMAN,CRUSHED,TRUCK,RUN OVER

Event
TRACTOR TRAILER,BACKING UP,INATTENTION,CONSTRUCTION,FLAGMAN,CRUSHED,TRUCK,RUN OVER
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
686139
Report ID
855610

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)

  1. #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
  2. #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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