Haul/Off Road/Coal/Ore/Pit/Quarry/Rock/Rubber Tire Truck Driver, Transportation Truck Driver fatality

June 1, 2023 at 12:40 PM

Hockley Plant · Alleyton Resource Company, LLC. · Harris County, TX

Investigator narrative

An outside truck driver came onto this site to get loaded where the driver then parked their truck and was out of view from out scale house. Driver began to work on the back of the truck where the air bag blew out from under the truck and hit the driver in the head. Driver was not our employee, nor was the driver supposed to be working on their truck.

Record details

Classification: MACHINERY
Accident type: Struck by rolling or sliding object
Activity at time: Machine Maintenance
Subunit / location: STRIP, QUARY, OPEN PIT
Source of injury: METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
Nature of injury: UNCLASSIFIED,NOT DETERMED
Experience in this job: 10 years
Mine type: Surface
Sector: Metal/Nonmetal

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