OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #753657
BACK-UP ALARM,SCRAPER,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,STRUCK BY,RUN OVER,BACKING UP
Event description
Employee killed when run over by scraper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was working as a grade checker on a road construction project. An ex isting two lane roadway was being widened to four lanes. A Caterpillar 623B scra per and a Caterpillar 140 blade (road grader) were grading the two new lanes. Em ployee #1 stepped over a 2 ft beam into the path of a backing scraper and turned his back to the scraper to help. The operator of the blade was directing the sc raper operator to back up. The blade operator realized that Employee #1 did not hear the scraper, which did not have an operating back-up alarm, and signaled th e scraper operator to stop. But the scraper had already struck Employee #1 by th e time the scraper operator reacted. Employee #1 was run over and killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 68 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 12
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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