Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201942976 - Employee Is Killed When Tanker Truck Rolls Over

Accident Summary Nr: 201942976 -- Report ID: 0951510 -- Event Date: 06/27/2011
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
313082968	07/01/2011	1629	238910	Isemoto Contracting Co Ltd

Abstract: On June 27, 2011, Employee #1, a truck driver, was driving a water tanker truck from a finished jobsite to the company's airport vehicle base yard on a restricted road on the edge of the airport runway. Employee #1 was not wearing a seat belt and was believed to be driving with excessive speed when he lost control of the vehicle while making a turn. The water tanker truck turned over onto the passenger side and Employee #1 was ejected. He was crushed and killed by the weight of the water tanker truck.

Keywords: TANK TRUCK, ROLL-OVER, SPEEDING, STRUCK AGAINST, SEAT BELT, LOST CONTROL, TRUCK DRIVER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		New project or new addition		$500,000 to $1,000,000			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	313082968			Fatality	Other	Truck drivers, heavy	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Stripping and curing concrete Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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