Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in road work zone · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Camden Las Olas Apartments, 501 SE 2nd Street, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA 33301
on — Fractures , affecting the Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was installing a traffic barricade at the north entrance of a parking garage. A resident drove their vehicle beyond a traffic cone (placed to prevent entry) and the vehicle ran over the employee's left foot. The employee's foot was fractured.
An employee was assisting the crew with patching and restoring a roadway after the installation of a sewer line. He was helping place and level the blacktop/backfill material over the trench area to bring the road surface back to proper grade. The employee was walking between a forward-moving dump truck and a dirt pile when his right foot was run over by the truck s wheel, causing him to fall. The employee sustained injury to his foot.
An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.
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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