OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #742387
BACK-UP ALARM,OBSTRUCTED VIEW,CONSTRUCTION,DUMP TRUCK,RUN OVER,COMMUNICATION,BACKING UP,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing dump truck
Investigation abstract
At 3:45 p.m. on August 1, 1989, employees of P. Flanigan & Sons, Inc., were pavi f the way of the truck, but Employee #1 continued to walk in the paving lane. Th e truck backed over him, crushing him to death. ng berth #2 parking lot at Sea Girt Marine Terminal. Employee #1, a laborer, was walking toward the paver in the lane to be paved. At the same time, a driver fo r Ingram Excavation, Inc., was backing a 20-ton asphalt truck toward the paver i n the same lane. The driver said that he saw Employee #1 in his rear-view mirror and blew his air horn because his back up alarm was not working properly. When Employee #1 disappeared from his view in the mirror, the driver thought that he had gotten out of the way. Employee #1, however, was still in the path of the ba cking truck. A laborer who was near the paver yelled to Employee #1 to get out o
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 14
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 869
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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