Construction Worker Dies After 9-Wheel Pneumatic Roller Rolls Over on Her

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• Personal Author:
  Boyle, Debora ; Brown, Margee ; Parker, David L. ; Boyle, Debora ; Brown, Margee ; Parker, David L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health ; Minnesota Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MN FACE) ; Minnesota. Department of Health
• Description:
  A 39-year-old construction worker died of injuries sustained when the 20,000 pound nine-wheel pneumatic roller she was driving rolled over on her. It was not equipped with any type of rollover protective structure. The construction company the victim worked for was contracted to pave and add new shoulders to several miles of a county highway. Prior to the occurrence of the incident, the victim was operating the roller near the top of a one-half mile hill. While compacting the asphalt, the victim may have felt she was driving too fast and attempted to shift into a lower gear. This was not possible while the roller was in motion. The victim attempted to steer the roller as it continued to roll down the hill. The roller traveled approximately four-tenths of a mile down the hill until it entered a ditch. At the time the roller entered the ditch, it was traveling between 40 and 50 miles per hour. The roller then traveled approximately 100 feet through the ditch, prior to striking a rock embankment. The roller traveled across the rock embankment another 41 feet before it rolled upside down. Emergency medical personnel arrived at the incident site shortly after being called, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. MN FACE investigators concluded that to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences, the following guidelines should be followed: 1. pneumatic rollers should be equipped with a rollover protective structure and a seat belt
  
  and 2. design, develop, and implement a comprehensive safety program.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-workers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 5 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Road-construction Road-surfacing Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Highway Work Zones ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; FACE ; Construction ; Highway Work Zones ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)   ; Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)  
• Subseries:
  State ; State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE95MN047
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027508
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-108961
• 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 95MN047, 1995 Nov ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Performing Organization:
  Minnesota Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:430c9c6b265c5cbfedee1b8c2c15057433fbe4846508d1489f49a5d1a96f776a42206511d500d9b555199355cfd522fdac272c5894d5b08ad229bea37c86c793
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167161/cdc_167161_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.12 KB ]