Incident date: 2016-12-05
NAICS industry code: 237310

On December 5, around 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., an employee was using an aerial boom lift in a road center median. As he was coming down with the basket, the basket became positioned in live traffic and was hit by a box truck. He was hospitalized with fractured ribs and a punctured lung.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate