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Episode 12 - He Never Saw Him: A Fatal Skid-Steer Backover
He was kneeling behind a skid steer, straightening landscape fabric. Then the machine reversed.
Two days before Christmas, 68-year-old Jose Vasro was fatally struck at a worksite in Enfield, Connecticut. According to OSHA’s accident summary, the skid steer ran over his foot before he fell farther into its path.
On this episode of the Landscaping Safety Podcast, John Bongiovanni reconstructs the incident using OSHA’s official accident report, inspection and citation records, and reporting from multiple Connecticut news outlets.
We examine what OSHA identified: no established work zone around…
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