OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #823120
ALLIED CONTRACTORS INC
HARMANS, MD·
Event description
CONSTRUCTION WORKER KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY TRAIN
Investigation abstract
A CONTRACTOR HAD FINISHED WIDENING A HIGHWAY BRIDGE OVER THE AMTRAK MAIN LINE, W , WAS LAST SEEN STANDING BETWEEN THE SERVICE TRACK AND THE #1 NORTHBOUND TRACK ( THE TRACKS WERE 8 FEET APART). HE THEN "DISAPPEARED" WHEN AN ELECTRIC COMMUTER N ORTHBOUND TRAIN PASSED THE SITE AT 80 TO 100 MILES PER HOUR. NEITHER THE CONTRAC TOR NOR THE TRAIN CREW IMMEDIATELY REALIZED THAT A PERSON HAD BEEN STRUCK. IT AP PEARS THAT THAT THE RIGHT FRONT OF THE LOCOMOTIVE STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 ON THE RIGH T SIDE OF HIS BACK. THE EMPLOYEE WAS KILLED. HICH HAD 3 HIGH SPEED TRACKS AND A SERVICE TRACK ON THE EAST SIDE. A FOREMAN AND 3 LABORERS WERE GOING TO DO MINOR "PUNCH LIST" WORK EAST OF THE SERVICE TRACK W ITH A GRADALL AND A WHEELED LOADER BACKHOE TRACTOR. ALL HAD RECEIVED THE REQUIRE D SAFETY TRAINING FROM AMTRAK AND HAD BEEN WORKING OVER A YEAR. THE AMTRAK TRACK FOREMAN WAS ACROSS THE TRACKS ON A BLOCK PHONE TO ARRANGE FOR "FOULING" TIME. H IS FLAGMAN WAS GETTING "SUITED UP" FOR THE DAY. THE CONTRACTOR FOREMAN LEFT THE GRADALL IDLING AND WAS GIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BACKHOE DRIVER, WHOSE MACHINE WAS ALSO RUNNING. ONE LABORER HAD BEEN SENT FOR A SHOVEL. THE OTHER, EMPLOYEE #1
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 38
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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