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Fatality – Truck ran over pickup
Nov 2, 2018
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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.
Crusher-Fatality
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.
Speak up before the next one
EntirelySafe gives workers a place to raise safety concerns, and gives safety leaders a way to see the patterns those concerns form — before they become an incident like this one.
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