OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221493497

MOUNTAIN STATES CONSTRUCTORS, INC.

DEMING, NM— 2022-09-01T00:00:00

Event: 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
NAICS: 237310
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346193360
Employer profile: MOUNTAIN STATES CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
Summary number: 221493497
Report ID: 0653510
Project type: C
Construction end-use: I

Event description

Employee working in road is killed when struck by vehicle

Investigation abstract

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.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 22 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
7010

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