Incident date: 2018-07-20
NAICS industry code: 491110

An employee was scanning parcels outside of a delivery address when an axel broke on a large catering truck riding on the freeway and a tire flew off the vehicle, hitting the employee's face, head, and chest. The employee suffered a broken nose, broken ribs on both sides, and broken vertebrae.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Tires, except bike
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate