OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #943720
FLAGMAN,TRUCK,STRUCK BY
Event description
EMPLOYEE FLAGGING STRUCK BY TRUCK IS KILLED
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was flagging traffic at a work site where a crew was cleaning grass along the edge of a rural paved road. A dump truck used to haul off the material approached Employee #1 from the south and for an undetermined reason ran off of the road on the right side striking and killing him. Employee #1 had been train ed in proper methods for flagging and was wearing and using the proper equipment for the job.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 865
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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