A Traffic Controller is Killed When Backed Over by a Dump Truck

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• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A 53-year-old female traffic controller died when a 10-yard dump truck backed over her. The truck was doing the initial compaction of a 25-foot asphalt patch that the crew had just applied to the highway. The victim was raking the asphalt directly behind the truck as the truck was backing. The victim's assigned duties did not include raking the asphalt. Her assignment was traffic control and flagger. No one saw her go behind the truck. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future occurrences, employers, as part of their Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) should: 1. Use a second person as a spotter when backing heavy equipment with blind spots. 2. Ensure that employees, when not operating equipment, stay out of the work area and in clear view of those who are operating equipment. 3. Consider educating employees on the concept of teamwork in safety as part of the documented safety-meeting program. 4. Consider using additional safety devices for heavy equipment to warn workers of a backing vehicle and to warn drivers when someone is in their blind spot.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Construction Industry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Construction-equipment Construction-workers Drivers Equipment-operators Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 9 Protective-measures Road-construction Road-surfacing Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Training Traumatic-injuries Warning-signals Warning-signs Warning-systems Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Highway Work Zones ; Motor Vehicles ; Motor Vehicles - Dump Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE01CA004
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027283
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-111169
• 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 01CA004, 2001 Oct ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  48-49 - Transportation and Warehousing - (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-512:3999751eb4b2808c96125dc317e70e444d575a94f53ebcdf37dcabeed8c81b51caf07ae23555ce76073c683a229caaaf9767beab7c9859e13c8cc0e34681569b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/168949/cdc_168949_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 46.14 KB ]