OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221504319

IDEKER, INC.

PECULIAR, MO— 2022-10-08T00:00:00

Event: Construction, Driver, Highway, Highway work zone, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lighting, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Poor Visibility, Road, Road Paving, Severed, Struck By, Surveyor, Torso, Traffic Accident, Traffic Control, Truck Driver, Vehicle, Work zone
NAICS: 237310
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #346277239
Employer profile: IDEKER, INC.
Summary number: 221504319
Report ID: 0728500
Project type: B
Construction end-use: I

Event description

Employee is killed when struck by vehicle in work zone

Investigation abstract

At 1:30 a.m. on October 8, 2022, an employee was performing GPS mapping to shoot specific points along a highway lane that crews were paving. The driver of a White Ford F-150 Pickup Truck clipped two center line traffic cones, swerved and struck the employee who was standing in the closed lane. The employee was killed due to being severed in half at or just above the hips.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 35 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
218

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