A machine operator was killed when he was run over by a front-end loader at a city's salt stockyard. The victim, employed by a liquid de-icer company, was walking around the loader working area. An equipment operator backed the loader out of a storage shed and struck the victim, who was not wearing a high-visibility safety vest. The loader was lacking two side-mounted mirrors and there was no radio communication between the victim and the city's equipment operators. Does your workplace have a traffic control plan to coordinate movements of all workers at the site, whether they're on foot or operating […]

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