OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14351068
A & M, INC.
PINSON, AL—
Event description
Employee killed when run over by backing scraper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was the superintendent for a storm crew that was working along Highw ay 133S to widen it from two to four lanes of traffic. A Caterpillar 631 scraper was moving fill dirt into the area where the sewer crew was working. It drove a pproximately 50 ft past the sewer crew, dumped its load, and then began travelin g in reverse gear. Employee #1 walked into the path of the scraper; he was run o ver by its left rear wheel and killed. The back-up alarm did not operate and no signalman was provided.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 58 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 1
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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