A 50-year-old plumber working at a construction site was killed when a skid steer loader tipped forward and hit him on the head. Despite 20 years' experience, the man was not wearing a hardhat. The victim was in a trench 24 inches below ground level placing a PVC cuff around a cut-off valve on a water pipe. His co-worker was backfilling sand into the trench with the skid loader. The ground was damp and soft, and as the loader approached the edge of the trench, it shifted, fell forward and hit the plumber on the head. The plumber remained pinned […]