Technical Engineer Dies After Being Struck and Crushed By a Bulldozer/Earth Compactor–Pennsylvania

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  This report concerns the death of a 31-year-old technical engineer who was crushed by a 12-ton vehicle at a private landfill while attempting to obtain a soil sample for analysis. The driver of the bulldozer was preparing an access road to a new dumping site 100 yards from the existing site. The victim parked his truck and prepared to extract a soil sample, with his back to the bulldozer and out of sight of the driver. After driving forward about 150 feet, the driver reversed the bulldozer, to go over the ground again, compacting it further. The victim was caught and crushed between the right rear compactor wheel and the body of the bulldozer, dragged approximately 15 feet. The victim died of major crush injuries to the chest and pelvis. At the time of the incident the backup warning alarm on the bulldozer was not operating. The victim had not alerted the driver that he would be working in this location. Had a right rear-view mirror been mounted on the front right side of the cab, it would have been possible for the driver to view the victim. It is recommended that safety features be operable at all times, that workers be instructed to make equipment operators aware of their presence when working near operating equipment, and that machinery be equipped with devices to eliminate blind spots.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-Search Equipment-design FACE-93-07 OSHA Region 3 Traumatic-injuries Waste-disposal
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; 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/NIOSHFACE9307
• 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:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00216265
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-118346
• 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:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1992/11/18
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a3d7cc70e155bc286c05a8959cb12a2283a60b5d3fbb27e0a72ec734675ad468ff43b05897b600c47fd236456cf0be3739e319211f7c289d77436a100d0bba1b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167505/cdc_167505_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 235.27 KB ]