OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #780528
TRANSPORTATION CABINET DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
HOPKINSVILLE, KY·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by 18-wheeler
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:50 a.m. on February 8, 1988, Employee #1, an employee of the traffic cabinet, district 2, was in charge of setting traffic cones to close off the right hand lane of Interstate 24. He had just finished setting the tapper w ith the traffic cones and was beginning to place them along the center line when an 18-wheeler drove through the traffic cones. Employee #1 began running toward the outside emergency lane, but he was struck and killed before he was able to clear the roadway.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 60 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 814
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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