Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200840510 - Employee killed when backed over by sweeper truck

Accident Summary Nr: 200840510 -- Report ID: 0524530 -- Event Date: 05/03/2000
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

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Alteration or rehabilitation		$250,000 to $500,000			X

Employee Details
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

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