Incident date: 2019-08-13
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee was riding on the rear driver side step of a rear load trash truck. The truck was reversing onto a no-outlet street when it backed into a roll-off container on the side of the street. The employee was crushed between the truck and the container.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle struck object or animal on side of roadway
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate