Incident date: 2024-11-23
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was in the northbound lane of a bridge doing concrete patch work. A vehicle in the southbound lane entered a work zone that had been set up by another employee doing overhead sign work. The vehicle struck the median barrier, which caused bridge forms to come loose and strike the injured employee. The employee sustained a broken right rib, lacerated liver, and punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in road work zone
code_source: title: Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate