The transportation of scrap to and from our plants via tractor
trailer occurs countless times throughout every day. The vast majority of these
pickups and deliveries occur without incident. Nevertheless, there are
incidents that occur. Our goal on publicizing these incidents is to make our
industry aware that the loading of scrap trucks cannot be taken for granted. The
operation of loading trucks has to be standardized and regulated within each
plant. It appears that the number of transportation incidents are growing in
our opinion. Here is a recent incident.
A tractor-trailer attempting to turn onto Bellefontaine Road in
Lima, Ohio, USA overturned around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 8, 2017,
causing a load of scrap metal to be dumped onto a nearby sidewalk and the
parking lot of a Speedway gas station.
The driver, was
wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident and was not injured, but he
was cited for failure to control. No other vehicles or individuals were
involved.
An officer of
the Ohio State Highway Patrol said it appeared that the truck driver was
traveling too fast when he drove through the intersection of state Route 309
and Bellefontaine Road, near the Interstate 75 interchange.
“The vehicle is naturally top heavy, so it overturned and
spilled out the contents — in this case it was aluminum scrap metal — onto the
sidewalk,” said the Ohio State Highway Patrol officer.
Two lanes of
through traffic near the intersection were shut down for roughly three hours,
as a towing company cleaned up the wreckage. The lanes opened back up around 12:40
p.m. Wednesday.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol officer said the vehicle was
carrying a load of scrap metal from a Honda facility to a local scrap yard. The
vehicle suffered cosmetic and functional damage to its right side, the Ohio
State Highway Patrol officer said, though further evaluation is needed to
determine if it is repairable.
The Aluminium Plant Safety Blog is glad that neither the truck
driver, nearby motorists, nor any pedestrians were injured in this incident. We
hope that in the future this truck driver will acknowledge that driving over
the speed limit is hazardous. To our readers who drive a vehicle, you too
should realize that driving over the speed limit is hazardous. The APSB has
posted incidents where excessive speed was a contributing factor in the
accident.
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