Roadway Safety: Struck or Crushed
Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America
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Roadway Safety
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Documents
- Roadway Safety: Run Overs & Back Overs
- Roadway Safety: Operator Safety
- Roadway Safety: Struck or Crushed
- Roadway Safety: Flagger Safety
- Roadway Safety: Night Work
- Roadway Safety: Excavation
- Roadway Safety: Electrical hazards
- Roadway Safety: Strains and Sprains
- Roadway Safety: Fall Hazards
- Roadway Safety Awareness Program: Trainee Booklet
- Roadway Safety: Instructor Manual
- Roadway Safety: Working outdoors
- Roadway Safety: Noise Hazards
- Roadway Safety: Health Hazards
- Roadway Safety: Emergencies
Summary Statement
A handout describing dangers of working in a highway workzone, focusing on struck-by incidents and steps to take to improve safety. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items.
| This document is one in a program produced under an OSHA grant by a consortium of the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund N.A, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the American Road and Transportation Builders Assn, and the National Asphalt Pavement Assn. All of the documents from this set that are on eLCOSH can be found by clicking on Job Site, Heavy construction, and scrolling to the Street & highway heading. Or to download a complete version of the computerized program, go to https://www.workzonesafety.org/. |
Tools and materials are two major hazards.
To avoid being struck by tools
- Use point of operation guarding on portable hand tools
- Use chain saw safety program
- Use PPE
- Keep workers out of lifting areas, from beneath loads
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Use safe methods for rigging, hoisting, setting
- steel plates
- manhole frames
- jersey barriers
- manhole covers
- Use PPE - hard hats, footwear, eye protection
How Can Road Workers Be Struck?
Trees and equipment maintenance are hazards.
To avoid being struck by trees
- Restrict access during felling, trimming, loading
- Protective structures on equipment
- Use safe hoisting, rigging for logs and limbs
- Lockout/tagout/ hazardous energy control during maintenance, repair, cleaning, inspection
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