Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 149349.015 - Employee working in road is killed when struck by vehicle

Accident Summary Nr: 149349.015 -- Report ID: 0653510 -- Event Date: 09/01/2022
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1619336.015	09/02/2022		237310	Mountain States Constructors, Inc.

Abstract: At 6:00 a.m. on September 1, 2022, an employee was repairing roads and stepped out of his work truck. He removed barrels from the middle of a road median and moved them to the outer edge of the median near the shoulder. A motorist drove off the road, onto the median, and struck the employee. The employee was thrown approximately 100 feet from the impact and died. The employee incurred blunt force trauma including fractures to his cranium, neck vertebrae, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, left fibula, tibia, and humerus, disarticulation at the knee, abrasions and lacerations across his body.

Keywords: Abdomen, Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Face, Fracture, Head, Highway, Highway Shoulder, Highway work zone, Hip, Knee, Laceration, Leg, Lung, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Neck, Road, Skull, Struck By, Traffic Accident, Traffic Barrel, Traffic Control, Vertebra

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Maintenance or repair				0	X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	1619336.015	22	M	Fatality		Construction Laborer	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Traffic protection Fatality Cause:

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