Incident date: 2018-10-21
NAICS industry code: 712130

An employee was riding on the side of a garbage truck when the employee's right foot became wedged between a small push cart and the truck. The employee felt pain in the lower leg, fell off the truck, and was unable to get up. The employee was hospitalized with a right ankle injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate