A worker was crushed underneath an overturned road-milling machine. The contractor was using a 80,000-pound (36,287-kilogram) milling machine, or profile-reclaimer, to remove an airport taxiway. It didn't have a tip-over warning device. A bubble level to indicate the machine's lateral incline was out of operator's sight. The victim was assigned to walk alongside the machine to adjust its cutting depth. The operator had set one of the front tracks on a higher surface and the second track on a sand subsurface. As it then backed over debris, the machine exceeded its slope limit. The operator jumped off when the machine began to […]