Employee Strikes Head and is Killed

At 10:30 a.m. on January 28, 2016, an employee was loading a small roller/compactor onto a trailer (lowboy). The employee didn't have the machine positioned on the trailer straight and while attempting to correct the location of the roller, he over-compensated and caused the machine to roll over the edge of the trailer. The employee was not wearing a seatbelt, and had never loaded a roller onto a trailer prior to the accident. The employee was struck on the head as the machine fell. It is believed the employee's head struck the ground, or that he […]