Incident date: 2021-07-20
NAICS industry code: 562211

An employee was trotting down the shoulder of a roadway along side the garbage collection truck. As the truck approached a home that had trash out for collection, the employee moved toward the moving truck to retrieve his work gloves. As he reached for the work gloves, his right foot was positioned behind the rear outer dual tire which struck his ankle and fractured it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle on side of road
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s)
severity: moderate