Incident date: 2016-12-01
NAICS industry code: 238210

Employees were installing a fiber optic cable along a rural roadway and were cleaning up the site at the end of the day when a vehicle approached the work site, left the road, and traveled through the ditch, striking two employees. The first employee suffered lacerations and contusions, while the other suffered a fractured leg. Both were hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle on side of road
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Cuts and abrasions or bruises
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: low