Incident date: 2019-06-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was working on a road crew that was replacing asphalt in a closed left lane when a vehicle involved in a high-speed police pursuit entered the left lane road closure area. The speeding vehicle swerved around a state police vehicle stationed at the construction site and struck another vehicle. One of the vehicles struck the employee, who suffered a punctured lung; a ruptured spleen; and lacerations to the right knee, ankle, and wrist.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in work zone
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate