Incident date: 2019-03-02
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was switching a railroad car to an outbound train. The employee was communicating with the conductor via radio. At some point the conductor lost radio contact with the employee. The railroad car made contact with the employee and knocked him down onto cross-ties and a rock. The employee sustained a broken pelvis (left side).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Pelvis
severity: moderate