Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 608497 - CONSTRUCTION WORKER KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY BACKING TRUCK

Accident Summary Nr: 608497 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 05/16/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
101275626	05/16/1988	1623	0	Dillard Smith Construction Company

Abstract: AT ABOUT 8:30 AM ON MAY 16, 1988, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS DIRECTING THE WORK CREW AS THEY WERE SETTING UP TO STRING A NEW OVERHEAD POWER LINE ALONG A ROAD BED. TRAFFIC CONES AND SIGNS WERE EMPLACED AND A BUCKET TRUCK PARKED BETWEEN THE CONES AND THE CURB. THE BOOM TRUCK WAS SET AT THE PULLING POLE. THE EMPLOYEES WERE PLACING THE PROPER SLACK IN THE LINES WHEN EMPLOYEE #1 DIRECTED ANOTHER WORKER TO BACK THE BUCKET TRUCK TO THE POSITION IT HAD BEEN THE PREVIOUS WORK DAY. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STANDING ON THE DIRT SIDE OF THE CURB OBSERVING THE SLACK IN THE LINE AS THE BUCKET TRUCK STARTED TO BACK UP. HE STEPPED INTO THE PATH OF THE BACKING TRUCK AND WAS STRUCK AND KILLED. THE BUCKET TRUCK HAD NO BACK-UP ALARM NOR WAS A FLAGMAN USED.

Keywords: BACK-UP ALARM, BOOM TRUCK, OVERHEAD POWER LINE, TRUCK, STRUCK BY, BACKING UP, INATTENTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	101275626			Fatality	Concussion	Supervisors; electricians & power transm. install.

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