Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in road work zone · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Baldwin Paving Company, Inc., Indian Shoals rd, DACULA, GEORGIA 30019
on — Fractures , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was bent over laying down temporary tape to reopen the zone and was struck by a flatbed truck making a left turn. The injured employee sustained a broken leg.
Hospitalized Leg(s) unspecified Other semi, tractor-trailer
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An employee was in a verbal altercation with a coworker. The site foreman intervened and the employee began walking away. As the employee was walking away, the coworker assaulted him from behind with a punch to the head. He lost consciousness and fell into hot asphalt that had been freshly poured nearby. He was hospitalized with burns to the left side of the face, the left shoulder, and left forearm.
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A combine bean head was being hauled through a work zone on a trailer. It struck an employee in the head as he poured concrete, knocking him to the ground. The employee suffered a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized.
A crew was burning temporary tape during highway construction when a tractor trailer drove into the work crew, injuring three employees. One employee jumped from the roadway into a ditch, resulting in hospitalization with multiple fractures that include the right shoulder, pelvis, leg, ankle, and three vertebrae, as well as road rash, severe facial damage, a brain bleed, multiple cuts and bruises, and shock.
An employee was performing flagging duties for a work zone while standing on the shoulder of a two-lane road. The mirror of a passing pickup truck struck the employee, resulting in injuries to their head, neck, left shoulder, and left arm.
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