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October 5, 2023

How safe is your work zone? Here's what you need to know

  • Washington saw six work zone fatalities in 2022, and an average of 626 work zone injuries each year.
    • By ANDREW RUTHERFORD
    HUB International Northwest

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    In 2016, a pickup truck speeding through a work zone on I-5 slammed into a TMA behind Cindy Nelson’s truck as she was putting up road closure speed limit signs. Had the TMA driver not steered away from her truck, she could have died. The pickup driver was cut out of his truck and airlifted to the hospital.

    It's unusual to find a construction worker on road and bridge projects that doesn't have a near-miss work zone story to share.


     
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