Spotting safety problems: Always know what’s around you

Amy Materson (EQW)

Dec 3, 2014

Safety Watch 43

The accident: A dump truck backed onto a site behind a skid steer. The skid steer operator failed to see a worker approaching the dump truck on foot, and backed into him, pinning him against the tailgate.

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