Incident date: 2022-11-15
NAICS industry code: 493110

An employee and a trainer were completing a training activity with a trailer and a tractor. The trainee performed a pull test by moving forward to ensure that the trailer was hooked onto the tractor. The trainer was standing at the cab between the trailer and the truck. As the trainee pulled forward to test the brakes, the trailer slid forward into the fifth wheel, crushing the trainer s right foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate