Truck Driver Dies After the Off-Highway Truck He was Operating Rolled Over an Embankment and Came to Rest on Its Top-Pennsylvania

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 48-yr-old male truck driver (the victim) Died after the off-highway truck he was operating rolled 49 feet over an embankment and came to rest on its top in 4 feet of water. The victim was hauling dirt that was being cut from a bank to clear ground for a 3-mile stretch of a new freeway project. As the victim was traveling up a haulage road, a road grader that was scraping mud from the road was traveling toward him from the opposite direction. The victim steered the truck to the right to allow the grader to pass. As he did, a portion of the built-up haulage road gave way under the truck's right-side tires, causing the truck to overturn. The truck rolled over twice while traveling 49 feet down the embankment and came to rest on its top in 4 feet of water. The grader operator immediately ran to the truck and pulled the victim clear. With the help of the two flaggers, they placed the victim on the bottom of the truck cab. The two flaggers initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the victim while the emergency medical services (EMS) were called from a company truck. The EMS arrived at the scene within 8 minutes and summoned the county coroner, who pronounced the victim dead at the scene.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-Search Equipment-operators Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs OSHA Region 3 Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries Truck-drivers Trucking

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Highway Work Zones ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200005
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  6 pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021978
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101087
• 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:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1999/12/01
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2100d63c0bb6a94da7421caa6cb0489123cc4a4157223dae548e097b1474782c78e8d12aac0d476ab3905f615f47e3c363ebc3d797c23db8baf4bbd8e245ee12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167357/cdc_167357_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 568.74 KB ]