Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 800987 - Employee killed when run over by dump truck

Accident Summary Nr: 800987 -- Report ID: 0454510 -- Event Date: 10/11/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
126490093	10/14/1996	1611	0	Pavement Product & Services (Pps)

Abstract: Employee #1 had finished servicing milling machines #1 and #2 with his water truck and had parked his vehicle. A dump truck operator was told to pull forward and then to back up from milling machine #1 to milling machine #2. For some reason, Employee #1 was walking back to milling machine #2 and was approximately 272 ft behind machine #1. He was run over by the dump truck and died of massive trauma. The truck's back-up alarm was functioning, and Employee #1 was wearing an orange safety vest.

Keywords: TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, COLLISION, DUMP TRUCK, RUN OVER, BACKING UP, INATTENTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	126490093			Fatality	Other	Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators

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