Inspection Detail

Inspection: 1619336.015 - Mountain States Constructors, Inc.

Inspection Information - Office: State Of New Mexico Environment Department Occupational Health & Safety Bureau

Investigation Summary

At 6:00 a.m. on September 1, 2022, an employee was repairing roads and stepped out of his work truck. He removed barrels from the middle of a road median and moved them to the outer edge of the median near the shoulder. A motorist drove off the road, onto the median, and struck the employee. The employee was thrown approximately 100 feet from the impact and died. The employee incurred blunt force trauma including fractures to his cranium, neck vertebrae, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, left fibula, tibia, and humerus, disarticulation at the knee, abrasions and lacerations across his body.

Keywords: Abdomen, Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Face, Fracture, Head, Highway, Highway Shoulder, Highway work zone, Hip, Knee, Laceration, Leg, Lung, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Neck, Road, Skull, Struck By, Traffic Accident, Traffic Barrel, Traffic Control, Vertebra