Incident date: 2025-04-09
NAICS industry code: 541330

An employee was in a highway work area where a lane had been closed for paving operations. The employee collected an asphalt ticket from the driver of an asphalt truck and was walking back to the paving operation when the asphalt truck backed over the employee. The employee suffered multiple leg fractures and lacerations and was hospitalized, undergoing a partial below-knee amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in road work zone
code_source: title: Trucks with mounted machines, equipment  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high