Tanker Truck Involved in Deadly Crash on Interstate

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• Corporate Authors:
  Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE) ; University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Description:
  February 17, 2014, on a cloudy Monday, around 4:40 p.m., a 40 year-old male tanker truck driver (victim) was driving down a straight level 3-lane interstate headed north bound to a neighboring state going approximately 70 m.p.h., to deliver his 45,000 lbs. of liquid sodium sulfate when he came upon a slow moving vehicle in the right lane, the victim swerved to the left to avoid the vehicle and his 2001 Kenworth tractor trailer left the road. The victim then overcorrected and his semi flipped landing on its top in the right side of the roadway in a grassy area with a rock cut ditch. To prevent future occurrences of similar incidents, the following recommendations have been made: Recommendation No. 1: Commercial motor vehicle drivers should avoid distracted driving to prevent resultant collisions and driver errors. Recommendation No. 2: Commercial motor vehicle companies should consider using Defensive Driving training for their employees on an annual basis. Recommendation No. 3: Commercial motor vehicle drivers should be trained to know the signs of fatigue and steps to take to eliminate driving while fatigued.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Transportation
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Truck Driver Distracted Driving Drivers Injuries Injury-prevention Load Shifting Motor-vehicles OSHA Region 4 Safety-education Safety-practices Tanker Trucks Training Transportation-workers Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE14KY007
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045674
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-102791
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 14KY007, 2014 May ; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1fb55a68ed4c2ad4f1532fbd2fa33e3eadf614b7c83f14585ca8943957bdbd8a52705b8d6391962b623a3eda5c1c5a1ca258bfe42e043c1025a7d69cd4691dc5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165104/cdc_165104_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 673.70 KB ]