Dive Brief:

• A woman working at a construction site on Interstate 44 near Catoosa, Okla., died when a dump truck delivering materials backed over her while she was kneeling on the roadway.
• Witnesses told the highway patrol that noise on the highway prevented the truck driver and Eri Hernandez, 48, from hearing their warning shouts and a horn they were sounding.
• Troopers said there was no indication that the truck driver was impaired in any way, and they were checking the truck to see if backup beepers were working.

Dive Insight:

The construction industry has made a well-publicized effort to raise public awareness of the need to slow down at construction sites and to give workers room for safety. The tragedy in Oklahoma's Rogers County happened inside the construction zone and demonstrates the ever-present danger when people and machines work together.