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An employee was assisting the crew with patching and restoring a roadway after the installation of a sewer line. He was helping place and level the blacktop/backfill material over the trench area to bring the road surface back to proper grade. The employee was walking between a forward-moving dump truck and a dirt pile when his right foot was run over by the truck s wheel, causing him to fall. The employee sustained injury to his foot.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.

A combine bean head was being hauled through a work zone on a trailer. It struck an employee in the head as he poured concrete, knocking him to the ground. The employee suffered a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized.

A crew was burning temporary tape during highway construction when a tractor trailer drove into the work crew, injuring three employees. One employee jumped from the roadway into a ditch, resulting in hospitalization with multiple fractures that include the right shoulder, pelvis, leg, ankle, and three vertebrae, as well as road rash, severe facial damage, a brain bleed, multiple cuts and bruises, and shock.

An employee was performing flagging duties for a work zone while standing on the shoulder of a two-lane road. The mirror of a passing pickup truck struck the employee, resulting in injuries to their head, neck, left shoulder, and left arm.