Fatality – Truck ran over pickup

On November 3, 2018, a 44-year old shift supervisor with 3 years of experience was killed when a loaded Caterpillar 785B haul truck ran over her pickup truck at the crusher site.

Learnings

• Communicate and verify with all equipment operators your planned movements and location upon entering a work area.
• Train equipment operators on the limited visibility and blind spot areas that are inherent to the operation of large equipment.
• Do not drive or park smaller vehicles in mobile equipment’s potential path of movement.
• Instruct all operators on the importance of using flags or strobe lights on the cabs of their vehicles to make haulage truck operators aware of their location.
• Install and maintain collision avoidance/warning technologies on mobile equipment.