Tag: DOT worker killed

Roadbuilding

First Caltrans District 7 employee death on the job in 11 years as worker is struck on freeway near LA

California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 7 employee Jorge Lopez, 57, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer September 1 while working on the Antelope Valley Freeway in Acton at Crown Valley Road. Lopez, an electrician and 16-year Caltrans veteran, is the first District 7 agency employee to be killed on the job since 2005. […]

September 5, 2016

Roadbuilding

Texas road worker killed after being struck in hit and run

A road worker in Texas died Tuesday after he was struck by a possibly drunk driver that then fled the scene. According to KIII News, Texas Department of Transportation contract worker Justin Mazone was weed eating grass in the center median on Highway 181 in Corpus Christi when a Nissan Sentra drove into the median. The […]

January 14, 2016

Roadbuilding

Motor grader operator killed when machine is hit by train in Oklahoma

A worker for Nowata County in Oklahoma died Wednesday after the motor grader he was operating was hit by a train. The Tulsa World reported that 71-year-old Cleo Standefield was driving his machine from one worksite to another when a 43-car train barreled into the grader at 41 mph. Standefield was pronounced dead at the scene. It’s […]

December 4, 2015

Roadbuilding

Alabama DOT worker killed after being struck by a semi-truck

An Alabama Department of Transportation road worker operating a dump truck was killed this week after a semi-truck hit his vehicle in an interstate construction zone. The Tuscaloosa News reported that 52-year-old Tonnie Bernard Watkins was working from inside his dump truck on Nov. 16 in a construction area at mile marker 19.5 on Interstate 20/59 near Livingston […]

November 19, 2015

Roadbuilding

Student engineering intern struck and killed by semi in North Dakota work zone

A 20-year-old engineering student working in an internship position died while working on a road project in North Dakota after he was struck by a semi truck. The Grand Forks Herald reported Benjamin Enterman was working for Stantec Inc. taking measurements to verify erosion control at a recently completed construction zone on Highway 23 on Oct. 27 when he was […]

November 8, 2015

Roadbuilding

South Carolina DOT worker dies after being backed over by dump truck

A South Carolina Department of Transportation worker died Tuesday after he was struck by a coworker-driven dump truck. According to WBTW, 51-year-old Henry Norris was walking to a piece of equipment on a jobsite when his coworker began to back up a dump truck. Norris was hit as his coworker was trying to back onto Mayberry Road in Darlington […]

October 21, 2015

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South Carolina DOT worker killed after getting swept away by floodwaters

A South Carolina road worker died Sunday after floodwater overturned his truck and swept it away during the powerful storm flooding the state. According to the Greenville News, Timothy Wayne Gibson was working in Columbia when the flow of the floodwater overcame the South Carolina Department of Transportation worker’s truck. The rushing water was powerful enough to flip […]

October 6, 2015

Roadbuilding

Two North Carolina counties push to name part of highway for DOT worker who died in March

Two county commissions in North Carolina are pushing to honor a Department of Transportation worker who died on the job in March by naming a stretch of the highway he was killed on after him. According to The News and Observer, the Wayne County Commissioners passed a resolution to ask the NCDOT to reserve a […]

August 10, 2015

Roadbuilding

Massachusetts Turnpike toll collector killed after being struck by a pickup

A toll collector at the Massachusetts Turnpike died early Friday after he was hit by a pickup truck driving through the E-ZPass lane. Bill Pappas, 61, became the first Massachusetts toll worker killed since 1999 when he was struck by the truck as he was walking across the E-ZPass lane, the Worcester Telegram reported. Pappas died […]

August 3, 2015