| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-16 | San Antonio | Tx | Curran Contracting Company | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
| A road grader struck an employee that was performing surveying work. The employee suffered a broken hip, a broken right foot/ankle, and possibly broken ribs and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2021-04-12 | Winnfield | La | Ingles Timber Inc. | Leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was operating a road grader. The grader stopped and the employee dismounted to check it. The grader then began moving. The employee chased it down and jumped up to stop it, but fell under it. The employee suffered a broken right leg. | |||||
| 2020-10-02 | Gainesville | Fl | DAB CONSTUCTORS, INC. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in work zone |
| On October 2, 2020, an employee was struck by a motor grader while shoveling windrow. The employee sustained fractures to the right arm, right foot, and ribs. | |||||
| 2020-08-14 | Ocala | Fl | Art Walker Construction, Inc. | Multiple lower extremities locations | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| At 1:30 p.m. on August 14, 2020, an employee was shoveling dirt along the edge of a concrete curb into the path of a road grader. The road grader's wheel struck the employee from behind, causing a crushed foot, ankle, and lower leg. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-01-23 | Farmer City | Illinois | Monsanto Company | Arm(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
| An employee was cleaning a grader drum with compressed air. His arm was caught and injured between the drum and the equipment's frame. He was hospitalized to treat a muscle injury. | |||||
| 2019-01-16 | Nampa | Idaho | WOODGRAIN MILLWORK, INC. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to fix a hydraulic leak in the stacker/grader when the electric eye was activated. The employee's arm was then fractured and an artery was lacerated in the stacker/grader. The stacker/grader was not locked or tagged out at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-08-16 | Olive Branch | Mississippi | LEHMAN-ROBERTS COMPANY | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in work zone |
| On August 16, 2018, an employee was using a shovel to help a motor grader operator clean off the road in preparation for milling when he was struck by a dump truck, fracturing his right tibia and pelvis. He was hospitalized and had surgery. | |||||
| 2018-07-27 | Humble | Texas | Park Construction Associates, LLC | Pelvis | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
| An employee tripped and fell down and a road grader hit him, breaking his pelvis. | |||||
| 2018-07-13 | Savannah | Georgia | HERITAGE CONSTRUCTION SAVANNAH, INC. | Forehead | Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. |
| An employee was unchaining a grader from a lowboy trailer. He tripped and fell, and his head struck the trailer. He suffered a cut to the forehead and possibly other injuries. | |||||
| 2018-07-05 | Madison | Alabama | SJ&L General Contractor, LLC | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was changing a cylinder on the steering column of a motor grader while standing on the raised blade. He hit the lever rod that controls the blade with his hands or arm, causing the blade to rotate and pinch his left leg between the grader and the step. His left leg broke. | |||||
| 2018-05-02 | Hales Corners | Wisconsin | Musson Bros., Inc. | Foot (feet) | Pedestrian vehicular incident |
| An employee's foot was run over and bruised by a road grader. | |||||
| 2017-04-30 | East Palatka | Florida | JSKemp & Brothers, LLC. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was waiting for potatoes to be graded (using a bulk grader) so that he could load them onto a tractor trailer when he noticed a bad potato on the conveyor. When he attempted to pull the bad potato out, his right index finger was caught in the conveyor's moving chain and sprocket, amputating it to the first joint. | |||||
| 2016-10-19 | Chapman | Alabama | Coastal Forest Products, LLC. | Arm(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was freeing a jammed wood product (veneer panel plywood) from a saw line workstation. While freeing the jammed plywood from the grader bin, the operator pinned/pinched his arm between a piece of metal angle iron (under a load) and the metal cross member causing a puncture wound on his right arm below the bicep. | |||||
| 2016-09-27 | Elberta | Alabama | Dean's Dozer Service | Scalp | Ran off driving surface, nonroadway |
| While performing dozer operations in a skid loader/grader, the employee was placing top soil dirt into a beach bulkhead. The skid loader/grader backed off the bulkhead and fell 3 feet to the ground. Broken glass from the rear window lacerated the back of his head and the safety (lap) bar caused bruising to his chest. | |||||
| 2016-07-12 | Blanding | Utah | National Park Service, Zone 4 | Multiple body parts | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee was operating a road shouldering grader while doing road work and experienced dizziness and numbness in his arms. He was later hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-03-04 | Jasper | Alabama | Good Hope Contracting, Co., Inc. | Multiple body parts | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was hit/crushed by a motor grader's rear differential while the operator was backing up. The employee suffered a fractured back, three broken ribs, and a broken shoulder/collarbone. | |||||
| 2015-10-26 | Steamboat Springs | Colorado | NATIVE EXCAVATING, INC. | Nonclassifiable | Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire |
| An employee was putting tires on a motor grader. After airing the tire up, the employee noticed that the O-ring was protruding from the seal, indicating a bad seal. The seal ruptured and the employee was struck by rubber and flange from tire. | |||||
| 2015-09-16 | Leroy | Alabama | Dorman & Associates Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was lifting a grader with an air tugger and got her left hand index finger caught in the metal wiring resulting in amputation. | |||||
| 2015-05-07 | Balmorhea | Texas | West Texas Poly and Pump LLC | Head | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee was struck on the head by a piece of a split rim when he was inflating a tire on a motor grader. | |||||