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Accident Summary Nr: 200840510 - Employee killed when backed over by sweeper truck
| Inspection Nr | Date Opened | SIC | NAICS | Establishment Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300611126 | 05/04/2000 | 1622 | 0 | E.T. Simonds Construction Company |
Abstract: Employee #1, the job site superintendent, and an engineer from the Illinois Department of Transportation, were inspecting the road surface on highway 150 shortly after rotomilling to remove the old asphalt blacktop surface. They had stopped to get a closer look at the road surface when a cab-driven vacuum/sweeper truck backed over both of them. Employee #1 was crushed and killed between the belly sweeper and the pavement. The coworker was thrown out near the moving traffic and sustained a fractured leg and severe lacerations to his extremities and face. The back-up alarm on the vacuum truck was not functioning at the time of the accident.
Keywords:
BACK-UP ALARM, HIGHWAY, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, CAUGHT BETWEEN, RUN OVER, MOTOR VEHICLE, SWEEPER, BACKING UP
| End Use | Project Type | Project Cost | Stories | Non-building Height | Fatality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highway, road, street | Alteration or rehabilitation | $250,000 to $500,000 | X | ||||
| Employee # | Inspection Nr | Age | Sex | Degree of Injury | Nature of Injury | Occupation | Construction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300611126 | Fatality | Fracture | Construction laborers | Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Paving Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over of non-operator by operating cons |