Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Kentucky: Truck Driver Dies When Tractor-Trailer Leaves the Road and Plunges Into a Creek-Bed, FACE-13-KY-039.

摘要

In the early morning hours of a fall day, exact time unknown and the length of time driving unknown, a 28-year-old male truck driver was driving north on an interstate transporting 30,000 lbs. of blue plastic injection molding pellets. The truck driver exited the highway behind a guardrail and traveled 1,320 feet, striking a wire fence and several trees before plummeting into a creek bed, shearing the cab open. At 10:27 a.m., a citizen called in to the fire department to report a mysterious blue substance observed in the creek a couple of miles down from the accident. The fire department arrived on scene, followed the creek and found the semi in the creek. The driver was extricated by mechanical means by the fire department and declared dead at the scene by the coroner's office.