Accident: 170561047 - Crushed And Killed When Trailer Falls On Cab

On October 26, 1994, Employee #1, of N.W. Sonny Beachum Trucking Company, was delivering a load of pea gravel to Bris, Inc., a Greensboro roofing company. He backed his trailer in at an angle approximately 90 degrees to the cab, and began to raise the dump bed. He was sitting in the passenger side watching the load being dumped. As the trailer was lifting, the load shifted. A sharp cracking noise alerted witnesses, who saw the trailer shift and fall onto the passenger side of the cab, crushing it. Employee #1 was killed.

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Accident: 170374078 - Injured When Dump Truck Tips Over

At approximately 1:30 p.m. on June 8, 1993, Employee #1, a yardman with 5 years of experience at a retail building materials company, was delivering 5 yards of drain rock to a construction site. He had parked the truck at an angle on a sloped driveway. When Employee #1 activated the hydraulic system to dump the gravel, the gravel slid to the right side of the bed causing the truck to fall on its right side. Employee #1 was in the cab and states that he suffered multiple injuries to his right leg. The related violation was 33203(a).

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Accident: 14217236 - Run Over By Gravel Truck Trailer

EMPLOYEE #1, AN OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICER IN UNIFORM, WAS WORKING ON FRIDAYS FOR A COMPANY DOING CHIP SEAL WORK ON CITY STREETS. HE WAS STOPPING TRAFFIC ON INTERSECTING STREETS AS THE CREW WAS MOVING FROM ONE SITE TO ANOTHER. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD STOPPED TRAFFIC FOR THE CONVOY AT THE INTERSECTION OF 7TH AVENUE AND MARYLAND. AS THE LAST VEHICLE, A KENWORTH DUMP TRUCK WITH A RELIANCE TRAILER (MODEL #223-TRD), PASSED THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, EMPLOYEE #1 TURNED TO RUN BACK TO HIS VEHICLE. HE STEPPED INTO THE FRONT DUALS OF THE TRAILER. THE TRAILER WAS LOADED WITH APPROXIMATELY 24,600 POUNDS OF GRAVEL. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS RUN OVER BY BOTH THE FRONT AND BACK SET OF DUALS.

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Accident: 14518914 - Buried Under Pile Of Gravel

ON AUGUST 28, 1984, AT APPROXIMATELY 3 PM, THE SEARCH FOR EMPLOYEE #1 ENDED WHEN HIS BODY WAS FOUND BURIED BENEATH A PILE OF GRAVEL. THE INCIDENT APPARENTLY OCCURRED AROUND NOON OF THE SAME DAY WHEN EMPLOYEE #1 WAS LAST SEEN BY HIS DUMP TRUCK IN THE OPEN YARD. HE WAS HAULING GRAVEL TO AN ASPHALT PLANT AND MAY HAVE HAD TROUBLE WITH THE TRUCK'S GATE MECHANISM. THIS GATE MECHANISM ALLOWS THE LOAD TO DUMP WHEN THE TRAILER IS IN THE RAISED POSITION. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS APPARENTLY TRYING TO PRY THE GATE LOOSE WITH A STEEL BAR, AND WHEN HE SUCCEEDED, THE LOAD OF GRAVEL POURED OUT AND BURIED HIM.

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