Temporary Laborer Crushed by Dump Truck at Landfill - South Carolina: FACE 98-10

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On March 9, 1998, a 38-year-old temporary laborer (the victim) was run over and crushed by an off-road dump truck while he was working at a sanitary landfill. The victim had been assigned to pick up litter which fell from refuse collection vehicles traveling the landfill access road. He performed this task for about 2 1/2 hours and was then assigned to act as a traffic guide, directing trucks to the proper dumping location along the landfill working face. Approximately 45 minutes after the victim began this assignment, co-workers noticed he was no longer in visual or audible contact with them and began a search. A loader operator saw the victim lying near a stockpile of cover-dirt and notified the foreman, who contacted the local emergency services. A local rescue squad, sheriff's department, and the coroner responded. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. NIOSH investigators concluded that, to prevent similar incidents, employers should: Ensure that workers follow procedures that minimize or eliminate pedestrian exposure to hazards from moving vehicles and mobile equipment. Consider the use of electronic signaling devices or sensors to warn equipment operators of the presence of pedestrians in the blind spots of mobile equipment. Ensure that routes of pedestrian travel are located to minimize worker exposure to hazards of vehicle movement during access and egress from rest rooms and similar facilities.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Crush Injuries
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Blind-spots
  • Personal-protective-equipment
  • Accident-prevention
  • Equipment-design
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Trucks
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Manufacturing ; Motor Vehicles ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Temporary Worker ; Waste Management and Remediation Services ; Motor Vehicles - Refuse Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9810
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  South Carolina ; 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Casini, Virgil J. ; Castillo, Dawn N. ; Moore, Paul H. ; Pettit, Theodore A.
• Volume:
  1998
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000449
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-155624
• 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:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1998/03/09
• Resource Number:
  FACE 98-10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167402/cdc_167402_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d2378daa66efb5af3d67ca9a4027fee35ca153a186683082e011080f9f639c5ca582f5b12b0c30a41918e2d066036e395eab2ef73da98b220444e609256b56b