Intervention Strategies for Preventing Road Construction Worker Fatalities and Injuries Due to Motor Vehicles

This report discusses intervention strategies to prevent road worker fatalities and injuries due to motor vehicles. The report is divided into the following sections: Pedestrian workers struck by traffic – hazard interventions related to the pedestrian worker, the motorist, and work zone planning, design, implementation, and oversight; Pedestrian workers struck by construction vehicles – hazard interventions related to the pedestrian worker, construction vehicle operator, work zone planning, design, implementation, and oversight and construction vehicle design, safety features, and maintenance; Construction vehicle operator/occupant events – rollovers, collisions, ejections and falls from moving vehicles, and struck by falling objects; and Other hazards – control of hazardous energy sources while cleaning, repairing, inspecting and maintaining equipment and construction vehicle contact with utilities.