Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200821726 - Employee Is Killed When Run over by Concrete Truck

Accident Summary Nr: 200821726 -- Report ID: 0521400 -- Event Date: 09/09/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
305155863	09/09/2002	1611	0	Alliance Contractors, Inc.

Abstract: On September 9, 2002, Employee #1 was part of a crew that was pouring concrete for a taxiway at the Aurora, IL airport. He had stretched a string across the taxiway to insure that the concrete would be poured to the proper depth. As he rewound the string, Employee #1 walked in front of a stationary concrete truck that was waiting to pour a load of concrete into a bridge machine. The truck driver saw Employee #1 pass in front of his truck, but he was then distracted by a coworker who was asking for his load ticket. When the driver returned his gaze forward, he no longer saw Employee #1. The driver waited for approximately two minutes and still saw no sign of the employee. When the bridge machine started to move, the driver began to move in low gear. He felt a bump and coworkers started yelling for him to back up. When he did, he saw Employee #1 on the ground. He had been run over and killed. For some reason, Employee #1 had been kneeling in front of the right front wheel of the truck, out of the driver's sight.

Keywords: CONCRETE TRUCK, OBSTRUCTED VIEW, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, TRUCK, STRUCK BY, RUN OVER, COMMUNICATION, CONCRETE, INATTENTION

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Alteration or rehabilitation		$500,000 to $1,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	305155863			Fatality	Other	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Paving Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons

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