Incident date: 2015-06-17
NAICS industry code: 562111

An employee got out of a garbage truck to loosen a turnbuckle on the back of the truck. Another truck exiting the dump stopped to talk. As the exiting truck began to move again, the turnbuckle popped. The employee stepped backwards (towards exiting truck) to regain balance. The employee's foot was run over by the rear axle of the exiting truck.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate