Traffic Control Supervisor Dies When Struck By An Asphalt Dump Truck While Picking Up Cones on a Roadway Work Zone - Tennessee

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On May 11, 2005, a 52-year-old male traffic control supervisor (the victim) was backed over in a roadway work zone by a dump truck hauling asphalt. The victim was part of a sub-contracted crew providing traffic control on a city street while paving was being done. The traffic control crew had re-arranged the work zone for a new paving operation, and the victim was picking up some extra cones in the work zone. The victim was facing away from an asphalt dump truck that was traveling in reverse towards the paver. The driver felt a "bump" and saw some cones tumbling into the road. He stopped, pulled forward and parked the truck. The driver and a traffic control worker found the victim lying face down on the ground moaning while clutching some traffic cones. They yelled for someone to call 911. Approximately 4 minutes later, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived on scene, assessed the victim and found he had multiple injuries. The victim was transported via ambulance to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Engineering Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-workers Control-technology Engineering-controls Equipment-design Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Road-construction Road-surfacing Safety-engineering Safety-practices Surveillance Training Traumatic-injuries Warning-signals Warning-systems

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Highway Work Zones ; Motor Vehicles - Dump Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200510
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Construction
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  14 pages
• Contributor:
  Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031340
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-104891
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/05/11
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2dad3357312ef0bb827ec47c7d15e87cb20eab7e375aed1ca9cf18604308d9dcc1c40d353bf4e39f4851d16bd64b97b2b7af902f8c178e5c547410db4bd1b936
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167280/cdc_167280_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.19 MB ]