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Person run over by paving machine in Calif.
East Contra Costa Fire Protection District officials said a man was seriously injured after being run over by a paving machine at a jobsite in California.
October 16, 2018
Roadbuilding
Penn. work zone sees two crashes in one day
A woman was injured when she lost control of her pickup truck in a work zone June 18, hitting a temporary barrier on Route 33 that was installed as part of a bridge replacement project, lehighvalleylive.com reports. Pennsylvania State Police responded to the accident, but only told the news agency that the woman was taken […]
June 22, 2017
Roadbuilding
Construction worker killed by machinery in Colorado work zone
A highway construction worker was killed June 15 when a piece of machinery struck him inside the work zone during paving operations on Highway 9, north of Silverthorne, Colorado, CBS Denver reports. The victim has not been identified, and the circumstances of his death were not clear at press time. The Colorado Department of Transportation reports […]
June 21, 2017
Roadbuilding
Work zone collision throws worker from truck
A highway construction worker was involved in an accident June 6 on Interstate 35 near Mason City, Iowa. CBC online reports that, at approximately 12:53 p.m., the Iowa State Patrol was called to the scene of the accident and found that a 2015 Ford transit van traveling north on the interstate had driven into a work zone, striking a truck with workers […]
June 12, 2017
Roadbuilding
Construction worker killed in backover accident on I-90 work zone in Montana
Kathleen Louise Lee, a 52-year-old construction worker, was killed when she was backed over by a another construction worker at an Interstate 90 road construction site near Livingston in Park County, Mont., abc Fox Montana reports. The Sheriff’s office and fire department were called to the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. April 17 and found Lee dead. Park County […]
April 27, 2017
Roadbuilding
Colorado motorist targets work zone flagger, causes injuries
A Colorado man was arrested last week after threatening a flagger inside a Longmont work zone with his vehicle. According to a report from the Times-Call, at 8 a.m. August 17, the Longmont police department responded to the report of an injury at the site in the area of Emery Drive and Emery Way. Workers at […]
August 25, 2016
Roadbuilding
Tennessee DOT veteran struck and killed by vehicle while flagging
Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) operations technician James “Pee Wee” Hopkins, 63, was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle July 27 while flagging traffic around a maintenance crew on Tennessee 54 near U.S. 412 in Crocket County. TDOT says this is the second employee fatality in the past three months, and has had 111 […]
July 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
One worker dead, one injured after truck hits arm of lift at bridge work site
On July 1, two men who were working on the Fauntleroy Expressway Bearing Pad Replacement Project under the West Seattle Bridge were injured when a box truck traveling on a bridge off-ramp hit the arm of the lift in which they were working, KIRO 7 reports. Both men were knocked out of the lift basket by the impact. One man, who was wearing […]
July 7, 2016
Roadbuilding
Two construction workers hit by car near Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh
Two construction workers were hit by a vehicle near the Westinghouse Bridge in Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning. CBS Pittsburgh reports that the accident happened on the Route 30 bridge just before 10 a.m. The construction workers were reviewing the area for a bridge replacement that is due to get underway next weekend, according to the Pennsylvania Department of […]
May 13, 2016
Roadbuilding
Flagger suffers serious head injuries when struck by SUV in Washington work zone
A flagger guiding traffic on a Washington state road was hospitalized with severe head injuries after being hit by an SUV. According to KIRO-TV, the construction flagger helping control traffic while a fiber optic line was being installed near Issaquah, Washington. The man, who is in his 20s, was in the road directing traffic at about 10:45 […]
December 17, 2015
Roadbuilding
PennDOT worker injured after being run over by a dump truck in work zone
A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker was hospitalized Tuesday after a dump truck ran over his legs in a construction zone in Hanover. The PennDOT employee was in a work zone on State Route 29 at around 2 p.m. when the dump truck ran him over and pinned him to the ground, according to the Wilkes Barre Times-Leader. The […]
August 7, 2015
Roadbuilding
Two dump trucks rear ended in same Kansas DOT work zone 2 days in a row (PHOTOS)
A construction zone on Interstate 470 has been unlucky for Kansas Department of Transportation dump trucks this week. Two KDOT dump trucks were crashed into two days in a row. The latest of the coinciding collisions came on Wednesday afternoon when a KDOT dump truck with a large arrow display board and crash attenuator was rear […]
July 27, 2015
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